1. Past Masters from InteLex:
Kierkegaard and Existentialism
Jaclyn Lee Parrott
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2. Reference Topic:
Reflection and Action within Existentialism
According to Kierkegaard
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4. OED: Existentialism
• A doctrine that concentrates on the existence
of the individual, who, being free and
responsible, is held to be what he makes
himself by the self-development of his
essence through acts of the will (which, in the
Christian form of the theory, leads to God).
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5. • The existentialist movement was mainly
originated by the Danish writer Søren
Kierkegaard (1813–55), who frequently used the
term Existents-forhold ‘condition of existence,
existential relation’. It was developed in the 20th
c. chiefly in continental Europe by Jaspers, Sartre,
and others, and the English word existentialism
answers to German existentialismus, which is first
recorded in 1919 (see below).
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11. Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers. Electronic edition.
Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers. Volume 1, A-E
Endmatter
Notes, Commentary, and Topical Bibliography
ACTION
• ACTION
• Action always stands in relation to a resolution
consciously thought through. Without this clarity of
resolution, it would have to be said of our actions that
things "happen to us rather than that we act”
• Action presupposes self-knowledge so that we can be
sure that our actions depend on conscientious
reflections and are not in "the service of unclarified
cravings" (Edifying Discourses, IV, p. 23).
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