stages of life
The existence is the realm of freedom: man is what he chooses to be, that's what it becomes. There are three basic alternatives in human life: the stage aesthetic, the ethical and religious. Among the other there is a stage and a jump a chasm, each represents an alternative that excludes the other.
STATE BEAUTY
stadium aesthetic aesthetics is the one who wants to live in the moment, trying to grasp the fullness do. He intends to make his life a work of art, which is banned boredom, sadness, boredom. "Enjoy life and live your desire," says the aesthetics, which finds its model in the figure of Don Giovanni (see Diary of a Seducer, which is one of the chapters of Aut aut, 1843), who knows put in limiting his enjoyment and intensity of satisfaction. At this stage, but it is not possible, according to Kierkegaard, or choice or true freedom: in fact, the esthetician leaves the circumstances for him to decide. In addition, the last outlet of the aesthetic life is in despair. It arises from having wanted to base their lives only on itself and not on others and on God "Anyone who lives aesthetically is in despair, he knows it or not know, indeed, perhaps more than any another desperate person who is not in itself feels no despair. "But if the root of despair is in wanting to accept the hand of God, then it is clear that authentic existence is available to God's love to those who do not longer believes in itself, but only to God
ethical life
Then there is the ethical life: it implies stability and continuity that the aesthetic life, as the relentless pursuit of diversity, excluding itself. In ethical life , the man undergoes a form, and adapts the universal renunciation to be the exception. The ethical life is represented by the figure of her husband (William Alderman) dall'elogio and marriage. And 'the man who chooses himself, that this decision affirms the continuity of his life, commitment, and not escape from responsibility, in a word, takes repetition. It is the ability to reconfirm the past, accepting each time and in a new way of loving the same woman, to have the same friends, to express themselves in the same profession. The repetition indicates the seriousness of life, ethical life is courage.
RELIGIOUS LIFE
religious life, faith, goes beyond the same ethical ideal of life. The symbol of the faith is seen by Kierkegaard in the figure of Abraham (see Fear and Trembling, 1843), because he accepts the risk of proof imposed on him by God, accepts the risk to stand before God in silence and solitude, as a single in front all'Altissmo. Faith goes beyond the very moral because God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son, and then to commit a murder. How can we accept such a test? But faith is precisely that risk, the acceptance of paradox and trial. The act of faith involves a break with rationality and requires resolute step, jump to a sphere that is incommensurate with the natural reason. The object of faith comes up against the reason that purports to explain everything and run out and not allow anything on top of himself for it, who do not want to believe, the object of faith is absurd. For the believer who accepts the transcendence of God and believes that nothing is impossible, it is a paradox. The paradox in religious truth depends on whether it is the truth as it is for Dio.Qui using a measure and a criterion superhuman, and compared to this one situation is possible: that of faith. Just for the paradox that as the believer is inclined to believe, and not a logical evidence. Kierkegaard expresses this with the formula: "Understand that you can not and should understand." Scandal is for Kierkegaard the crucial moment in the trial of faith, the point of resistance and therefore the sign the transcendence of Christian truth in the face of reason. The scandal shows the succumbing of the reason why it is refusing to "understand not to understand," as the reason just want to understand.
For Kierkegaard the source of the scandal stems from the fact that man does not have as "Single in front of God", that does not accept the measure of God when we place ourselves before God there is no room for fiction, disguises, illusions, there is first the discovery that "there is an infinite abyss qualitative difference between God and man", and that man can not absolutely nothing, which is to give God everything. But beyond that
This is, in Christianity, to admit that God himself has put into relationship with man that God has entered time, the Lord became incarnate in a man, and this gives a scandal! The object of scandal is just the figure of Christ, that is outrageous to believe that a single man is God, that Jesus is God
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