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I need some assistance with these assignment. kierkegaards three stages of life and changes to the self Thank you in advance for the help!
I need some assistance with these assignment. kierkegaards three stages of life and changes to the self Thank you in advance for the help! Rather, elements of each stage can exist at any time in the life of an individual and may be argued to represent the individual’s awareness of self, rather than chronological periods in the life of a human.
It would be ideal if all humans did progress from one stage to another until everyone arrived in the third or Religious Stage. Certainly, Kierkegaard’s philosophical theories do suggest that it is possible for every individual to become happy, have a successful and meaningful life, and achieve a state of self-awareness. But his suggestion is that humans may at stages in their lives, be identifiable as existing in one or more of these stages at any point in their lives and that not everyone will reach the ideal stage.
The understanding of self is reliant on the ability to make choices. But Kierkegaard proposes that such choices are not determined by what is “right” or “wrong” (writer’s quotation marks) in the conventional sense of a choice between good and evil. Choosing aesthetically, however, would be an aversion to making a choice, “… the aesthetical is not the evil but neutrality …” (107). Thus it is the absence of the ability or the will to make choices that condemns the individual to an existence in the Aesthetic Stage of life.
Hence, the Aesthetic Stage is characterized by the lowest grade of responses and thought. Again, it must be noted that individuals may be trapped in this stage throughout their lives, and never progress to other stages. It is in this stage that boredom determines actions, thoughts, and choices. Kierkegaard argues that boredom is “ruinous” (22) for humanity. Like children, who are becoming bored, hence “unruly” (22), humanity can be divided into two sections – those who bore themselves, and those who bore others (24-25). Thus like children, such humans will constantly be seeking new enjoyments, or other distractions to increase their enjoyment, and hence alleviate boredom.
