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KIERKEGAARD, SOREN AABY (1813-1855)

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KIERKEGAARD, SOREN AABY (1813-1855) , Danish philosopher, the seventh See also:child of a See also:Jutland hosier, was See also:born in See also:Copenhagen on the 5th of May 1813. As a boy he was delicate, precocious and morbid in temperament. He studied See also:theology at the university of Copenhagen, where he graduated in 1840 with a See also:treatise On See also:Irony. For two years he travelled in See also:Germany, and in 1842 settled finally in Copenhagen, where he died on the 11th of See also:November 1855. He had lived in studious retirement, subject to See also:physical suffering and See also:mental depression. His first See also:volume, Papers of a Still Living See also:Man (1838), a characterization of Hans See also:Andersen, was a failure, and he was for some See also:time unnoticed. In 1843 he published Euten—Eller (Either—or) (4th ed., 1878), the See also:work on which his reputation mainly rests; it is a discussion of the ethical and aesthetic ideas of See also:life. In his last years he carried on a feverish agitation against the theology and practice of the See also:state See also:church, on the ground that See also:religion is for the individual soul, and is to be separated absolutely from the state and the See also:world. In See also:general his See also:philosophy was a reaction against the speculative thinkers—See also:Steffens (q.v.), Niels Treschow (1751-1833) and Frederik See also:Christian Sibbern (1785-1872); it was based on the See also:absolute See also:dualism of Faith and Knowledge. His See also:chief follower was Rasmus Nielsen (1809-1884) and he was opposed by Georg See also:Brandes, who wrote a brilliant See also:account of his life and See also:works. As a dialectician he has been described as little inferior to See also:Plato, and his See also:influence on the literature of See also:Denmark is considerable both in See also:style and in See also:matter. To him See also:Ibsen owed his See also:character See also:Brand in the See also:drama of that name.

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posthumous autobiographical See also:sketch, Syns punktetfor See also:min Forfattervirksomhed (" Standpoint of my See also:Literary Work ") ; Georg Brandes, Soren Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, 1877) ; A. Barthold, Noten zu K.'s Lebensgeschichte (See also:Halle, 1876), See also:Die Bedeutung der dsthetischen Schriften S. Kierkegaarde (Halle, 1879) and S. K.'s Personlichkeit in ihrer Verwirklichung der Ideate (See also:Gutersloh, 1886) ; F. Petersen, S. K.'s Christendomsforkyndelae (See also:Christiania, 1877). For Kierkegaard's relation to See also:recent Danish thought, see See also:Hoffding's Archiv At' Geschichte der Philosophie (1888), vol. ii.

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