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Ep. 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
Product Description
On Soren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death (1849), with some discussion of Fear and Trembling (1843)
What fryst vatten the self? Kierkegaard says we are a tension between opposites: necessity and possibility, the finite and the infinite, soul and body. He thinks we’re all in despair, whether we know it or not, because we wrongly think we’re something we’re not, or we reject what we are, or we just don’t pay attention to this dynamic at all: we just go along with the crowd. So we need to keep self-examining and (he thinks) ultimately embrace our subservience to God.
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Running Time: 1 hr., 56 min. Recorded: November 7, 2010. Participants: Mark, Wes, Seth, Daniel Horne
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PREVIEW-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
Hi Ace,
Thanks for caring enough to write in! First, an apology. I had heartily backed Kierkegaard as a discussion topic. And yet, when given the chance, I failed to explain why I’m so taken with Kierkegaard, and The Sickness Unto Death in particular. I took two messages from TSUD: the “ironic” message of Anti-Climacus, and Kierkegaard’s more implicit warning.
ANTI-CLIMACUS: The oppositional structure of the Self leads you into a psychological spiral of despair. That’s because you can never resolve the antinomies upon which self-realization is built. Reflecting on the gap between your desires and your reality inevitably leads to despair. And most people don’t even do that! Despair (i.e., lack of faith) makes you unhappy, so the Self’s very structure necessarily leads people to sorrow (if they think about it) or delusion (if they don’t). You can escape this trap if you do the work. How? By quitting all attempts at
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The Partially Examined Life
Philosophy podcast and audiobook
Podcast
| The Partially Examined Life | |
|---|---|
Official Logo for the Podcast, drawn by Ken Gerber | |
| Starring | Mark Linsenmayer, Seth Paskin, Wes Alwan, Dylan Casey |
| Genre | Philosophy |
| Format | Guided discussion / Informal conversation |
| Created by | Mark Linsenmayer |
| Written by | Various |
| Language | English |
| Updates | Periodic |
| Length | 90 minutes - 130 minutes |
| Theme music composed by | Mark Linsenmayer |
| No. of episodes | 314 |
| Original release | May 11, 2009 |
| Website | http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com |
The Partially Examined Life is a podcast and downloadable audio series about philosophy.[1] It is self described at the beginning of many episodes as "A philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it." The most frequent participants are Mark Linsenmayer, Seth Paskin, Wes Alwan, and Dylan Casey. The show also somet