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A review by zachhois
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
The father of existentialism! So glad I could finally tap in and I’m excited to get deeper into his other works.
Anxiety - an inherent human condition. The precursor to hereditary sin. My favorite example here is the standing on the cliff: our anxiety in this sense is just as much to blame on the cliff for being so tall as it is for our eyes for looking down. However, the true inherent anxiety stems from the understanding of the freedom to throw ourselves off of it.
I can absolutely understand why he is the father of existentialism, because his idea is that the only way to overcome this anxiety of freedom is to embrace it fully.
There are a lot of Hegel references in here as well, I am excited (but also terrified) for when I get to his work.
Anxiety - an inherent human condition. The precursor to hereditary sin. My favorite example here is the standing on the cliff: our anxiety in this sense is just as much to blame on the cliff for being so tall as it is for our eyes for looking down. However, the true inherent anxiety stems from the understanding of the freedom to throw ourselves off of it.
I can absolutely understand why he is the father of existentialism, because his idea is that the only way to overcome this anxiety of freedom is to embrace it fully.
There are a lot of Hegel references in here as well, I am excited (but also terrified) for when I get to his work.