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The philosopher Sren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and a forerunner of postmodernism. Philosophy, in Kierkegaards radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed peoples lives. This graphic guide introduces this complex and difficult figure in a witty, accessible, and smart way.
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For over 2,000 years, philosophers had insisted that their primary task was to establish what counted as certain and reliable knowledge. Sren Kierkegaard violently disagreed. The job of philosophy wasnt to tell us what we could know. It had to tell us what we should do.
WHAT GOOD WOULD IT DO ME TO DISCOVER SOME SO-CALLED OBJECTIVE TRUTH?
WHAT I REALLY NEED TO HAVE CLEAR IN MY MIND IS WHAT I MUST DO, NOT WHAT I MUST KNOW.
Sren Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813, the youngest child of Michael Kierkegaard. His family nickname was Fork because, as a child he had once threatened his dinner.
I AM A FORK AND I WILL STICK YOU!
I WAS ALREADY AN OLD MAN WHEN I WAS BORN.
He was a frail child who suffered from a curvature of the spine, probably brought about by an earlier fall from a tree. He also suffered from mysterious fits that left him weak. And for the whole of his life he had an aversion to sunlight. Full-length portraits usually show him sporting an umbrella.
His old father was a remarkable man. He had been born in Jutland, as a landless serf, of an appallingly poor family.
We were called KIERKEGAARD, or CHURCHYARD AFTER A PLOT OF LAND THE FAMILY FARMED THAT BELONGED TO THE LOCAL PRIEST.
He moved to Copenhagen at the age of 24 and rapidly became one of the most successful merchants in Denmark. By the age of 40, he was rich, so he retired from commerce and devoted the rest of his life to reading theology. He was a very intelligent and religious man a great autodidact who enjoyed discussing Christian doctrine with the various churchmen he invited to his large town house.
Michael Kierkegaard was also an authoritarian father who demanded correct behaviour and obedience from his seven children and was careful with his money. His religious views were a complicated mixture of orthodox Lutheranism, Moravian piety and an obsessive spiritual melancholy. It was a dark and grim Christianity that stressed the inevitability of sin, punishment and suffering. Sren had to learn a lengthy catechism and recite it to his father every day.
As A CHILD I WAS STRICTLY AND EARNESTLY BROUGHT UP TO CHRISTIANITY HUMANLY SPEAKING, INSANELY BROUGHT UR
A CHILD TRAVESTIED BY A MELANCHOLY OLD MAN. TERRIBLE!
Srens parents were old when he was born. His heavy minded father was 56, and his mother Anne, 45. His mother had been the familys former domestic servant, illiterate, and she seems to have made little impression on any of her children. The father ruled, and was both feared and admired by all his children, especially Sren.
THE RELATIONSHIP WITH MY FATHER, THE PERSON I LOVED MOST, WAS WITH A MAN WHO MADE ONE MISERABLE.
But out of the seven Kierkegaard children, only two survived. The young family and their mother were gradually obliterated by accidents, disease and complications of childbirth. Only Sren and his brother Peter remained. And their father thought he knew why. The Great Earthquake happened in 1835 when the old man told the truth at last. Sren was 22.
SOME PUNISHMENT FROM GOD IS UPON US!
I HAD ALWAYS SUSPECTED THAT MY FATHER WAS HARBOURING SOME TERRIBLE SECRET THAT SOMEHOW EXPLAINED THIS APPARENTLY RELENTLESS ANNIHILATION.
God had rewarded Michael Kierkegaard with material prosperity, but was progressively punishing him by finishing off his children, all of whom would die before they reached the age of 34. (Like Christ, crucified at 33.) But why?
WHEN I WAS A SMALL BOY OF 11 YEARS, AS I TENDED SHEEP ON THE JUTLAND HEATH, SUFFERING GREATLY, STARVING AND IN WANT, I STOOD UPON A HILL AND CURSED GOD.
He also confessed to pre-marital sexual relations with his second wife, while she was still a servant, which probably didnt please God much either. But it was his angry childhood blasphemy that had done for them all.
GUILT RESTS UPON THE WHOLE FAMILY. IT MUST DISAPPEAR, BE STRICKEN OUT BY GODS MIGHTY HAND. OUR REMEMBRANCE MUST BE CUT OFF FROM THE EARTH AND OUR NAME BLOTTED OUT.
Both boys seemed to have accepted their fathers deranged explanation of the familys misfortune. They immediately became convinced that they would both die young. So 12 years later, Sren was very pleasantly surprised to find himself still alive.
MARVELLOUS THAT I AM 34 YEARS OLD. IT IS QUITE INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO ME.
Sren became a student at the University of Copenhagen, studying theology and philosophy to become a pastor of the Lutheran church. But, perhaps because of doubts about his longevity, he gave up his studies halfway through. He moved out of his fathers house, lived the life of a scandalous aesthete and devoted himself to a life of pleasure and amusement, which his father (surprisingly) seems to have funded.
I WAS LEADING MY LIFE IN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
He soon discovered the joys of reading literature, as opposed to theology, and became an opera enthusiast. He caroused with several good friends who called themselves The Holy Alliance. They discussed philosophy, girls and the opera, and Sren pretended to be more dissolute and outrageous than he actually was. By this time, he was developing more objective reservations about his fathers extreme religious views, and even entertained serious doubts about his own Christian faith. And like most philosophy students then and now, he was worried about what to do with his life. Philosophy itself certainly didnt seem to have the answers.
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