Partially Examined Life #331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)
Published 2023-12-11
What is choice? Kierkegaard's character Judge William criticizes the aesthete from our previous episode on the earlier part of this book: The aesthete doesn't make any authentic choices and so doesn't develop a coherent self.
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All Comments (3)
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Kierkegaard is missing an important phenomenon: that humans very often don't walk the bridge from understanding/realising something to acting upon it. Wasn't that a thing then? Does he talk about it elsewhere? I would have thought it was already included in Aristotle.
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and more comment: Kierkegaard sounds like a protestant lamenting that he cannot be a Thomist Catholic, where the aesthetic and moral become one in a person's virtuous character.
