Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855 (continued)

The Sickness Unto Death by Anti Climacus (The Descender, as opposed to Johannes Climacus)

The Philosopher G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)

Philosophy of History; Dialectical Philosophy: thesis + antithesis = synthesis

Kierkegaard and Religious Existentialism

Philosophy of Selfhood: dialectic of the self - psychological

Self as becoming

Self as synthesis of finite and infinite, necessity and freedom

Self as relational

Self as grounded in Infinite

Despair: 

of the finite (finite needs and desires)

of the infinite (infinite imagination and possibility)

of the will not to be oneself

of the will to be oneself

Despair vs Sin (willfulness)

Self-consciousness, sin-consciousness, Christ as perfect synthesis

Balance of finite and Infinite