Philosopher of the Single Individual
Søren Kierkegaard
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A Danish thinker who wrote under many pen names about anxiety, faith and choosing a self, and is often called the father of existentialism.
Key work: Either/Or (1843)
“It is quite true, as philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards; but one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forwards.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
We understand life looking back, but must live it looking ahead.
Truth becomes real when one person lives it.
Anxiety comes with the freedom to choose.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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