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vestbirkw t1_iw4jdqr wrote

Reply to comment by that1anarchist in A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd" by thelivingphilosophy

I'm taking an Existentialism class at my university atm and it's quite astonishing how every single philosopher of existence (Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Kafka, Camus, De Beauvoir, etc.) has read Kierkegaard. His influence speaks for itself.

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Halo_LAN_Party_2nite t1_iw5kmn3 wrote

He's so prolific and genius he wrote sermons and essays under multiple pseudonyms. I love Dostoevsky so much, but Kierkegaard is the True Existentialist. Lol.

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str8_rippin123 t1_iw9t30s wrote

I don’t think Nietzsche ever read him.

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vestbirkw t1_iw9tm5n wrote

From what I know he wrote a few letters stating he planned to study Kierkegaard, but I imagine it was fairly limited. Either way I think it's interesting to see how much overlap each had despite operating on opposite ends of the spectrum with respect to religious faith.

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str8_rippin123 t1_iwaispg wrote

Someone who was lecturing on Nietzsche wrote to Nietzsche asking him to meet so that they can read Kierkegaard together, I believe—but then Nietzsche went insane. It’s not surprising he never really heard of Kierkegaard to be honest, Nietzsche didn’t even know about Spinoza until he was 35ish

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