The ethical-religious type, though, has deeper intuitions in his soul.
The aesthetic type thinks any talk of immortality is just silly, since that kind of person can’t see anything other than the surface of the world as it appears to his senses. Kierkegaard would call the first kind of person the aesthetic type, and the second the ethical-religious type. Either your soul knows or it doesn’t, and that’s all there is to it. Scientific confirmation from a multitude of other gentlemen (as Kierkegaard might put it) isn’t going to help. It’s kind of like being in love, as well: if you need to ask ten of your friends if you’re “really” in love, then the odds are, you’re not. You either know that God is real or you don’t, in the same way that you sense your own immortality or you don’t. In a way, there’s no question of whether you “believe” in him or not.
Subscription collectors who produce long subscription lists of men and women who feel a need in general to become immortal receive no benefit for their trouble, because immortality is a good that cannot be obtained by bullying one’s way with a long list of signatures.Īs it is with immortality, so it is with God. The very moment I am conscious of my immortality, I am completely subjective, and I cannot become immortal in partnership in rotation with two other single gentlemen. In his major work, “Concluding Unscientific Postscript,” he says: This point becomes clear in Kierkegaard’s view on the question of immortality. Kierkegaard’s main motto is that “subjectivity is truth.” He’s not looking for objective, scientific knowledge, but starts with the individual human soul, and that soul’s first-person experience of the world. The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who’s often thought of as the father of existentialism, can help bring some insight to this situation. So, what’s going on? There Are Two Kinds of People But this Knight stays perfectly calm, and greets Death as an old friend. When the average person runs into Death, he would probably lose his mind with fear. The first scene itself is enough for you to see that there’s something strange about this guy. The rest of the film is just about the Knight encountering different people and trying to find some meaning with what time he has left as he continues to play for his life (with the rule that he can keep living as long the game is in progress).
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