The Sickness unto Death | Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard wrote one of the most remarkable theistic existentialist works of the 19th century, The Sickness unto Death is famed for the depth and acuity of its psychological insights.
Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of ‘despair’. Despair is a deeper expression for anxiety which is a not-wanting-to-be-oneself. It is a "misrelation" that arises in the self when once cannot balance the eternal (God).
The book is centred in being oneself, an individual, one of many reasons he is considered as the father of existentialism. Kierkegaard wants us to be who we are.
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⌛ Timestamps
0:00 Background
0:47 Preface
1:12 Introduction
2:46 Part I. The Sickness unto Death is Despair
8:34 Part II. Despair is Sin
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📝 Sources
- The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus. Alastair Hannay (Translator)
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[@Eternalised]

*“The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing: every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed.”* - Søren Kierkegaard Support this channel: www.patreon.com/eternalised KZbin Member Perks: kzbin.info/door/qos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkAjoin Donate a Coffee: ko-fi.com/eternalised PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial Official Merch: eternalised.creator-spring.com

[@TheApsodist]

How'd u do the emoji thing😂

[@Eternalised]

@@TheApsodist Those are available for KZbin Members!

[@jayabyss377]

Kierkegaard is amazing. He was way ahead of his time with his exploration of psychology.

[@Eternalised]

A fascinating individual!

[@adaptercrash]

That amazing fucked up continental shit they just don't care yeah and I'll be missing you for a bunch of Years and I just leave it on

[@juvenalhahne7750]

De onde se deduz que nosso tempo está acima do dele? Ora, se no vídeo que acabamos do ouvir o expositor declara que o verdadeiro eu só se alcança no relação com Deus, caso contrário seremos sempre homens do nosso tempo, seja o do passado ou o de agora. Estar a frente de seu tempo, portanto, só tem sentido em relação ao desenvolvimento do conhecimento (no caso, o da psicologia) mas não da fé. Para Kierkegaard afastado 1.800 anos de Cristo tratava-se, dentro da Cristandade, em tornar-se seu contemporâneo.

[@TheLivingPhilosophy]

"The only way out of despair is through it" That's profound. Reminds me of Dante's Divine Comedy where Dante reaches Heaven by going to the depths of Hell and climbing the leg of Satan. It's by descending into the depths of Hell that we find the way out. Great video

[@Eternalised]

Thank you. Excellent analogy, it's interesting to see them go hand in hand together, and to strive for the better one.

[@satnamo]

It is out of das deepest depth that das highest must come to his height.

[@vaheabrahamian137]

I guess you mislead a bit the thoughts of Kierkegaard my friend. Despair he said is sin , and the opposite of sin and despair is FAITH. True that being in the condition of sin and despair ( which is the norm of every human being) we may come to FAITH and climb out from the depth of hell to the lap of Christ . But not everyone would come to faith , therefore may sink deeper in hell because of sin and despair and never come out..

[@am-shak]

@@vaheabrahamian137 being in the condition of sin and despair is different than intentionally, knowingly and willfully being in the condition of sin and despair, to get out of it (by reaching faith). That i think is an important distinction.

[@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt]

Truly excellent comment. Thank you for sharing that. I'm wrestling a lot lately with the idea of having to go through hell to find my true self. Jung does a lot of junk shooting up with the shadow and the hell fest. And Kierkebaby is smacking like a 100% proof fire monkey too, with a waffle of zingers and waffers. So glad to have fatbellied him in my forties, even if a little too late for my mushy peas and gravy to take my lips out.

[@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt]

The maker of this video is next level intelligence. The summaries of philosophers that he produces are truly special. I think I love him.

[@gabrielfranciscorp]

Not being aware of our own despair is actually a rather dangerous disposition: it means we have not accepted our predicament as individual persons, whereas coming to know it will almost certainly weaken every reliance we have in life. But we must take the chance earlier rather than later, for it may become condemnation in the future, when eternity is realised at once by the individual; stunned, he is poised to effect his inner struggle, in which he died, as “deadly” is the chosen adjective by Kierkegaard. This means to us eternal death, and the coined word for the lazy resistence to face big a challange comes from the greek «ἀκηδία», or acedia, what roughly means sadness. «My soul is sad even unto death» (Mt 26, 38) - said Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gethsemane. Thus, it's a risk worth taking, and taken sometimes under apathy, implying that, eventually, spiritual suffering isn't even a requisite, though spiritual peace is acknowledged as volatile, as says the motet: «Nulla in mundo pax sincera». Assesing one's despair is the pain necessary in order to know one's liberty at his core, as the price of being given eternity. Christ Himself did have to suffer so to receive the glory of His Father, and the reason why we are redeemed through His Passion and death is because, unlike anybody, He is the One who is: «I am that I am» (Ex 3, 14). Even for those who do not believe in the afterlife, their minds are nonetheless harbored in such existential distress, which often leads to (and is bolstered by) unutilised time and experience. The sole proposal we have is to exercise our freedom of self-creation and to morally abide by the ontological reality that also permits us to elicit the divine «I am».

[@satnamo]

Be still and das whole universe will surrender. Be still and know that I am god. God is in us- Das author of our dream.

[@Davlavi]

This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.

[@elgeneral5279]

My only regret, is that I'll never be able to thank this man personally for his contributions to humanity.

[@lanaivanovic5272]

Thank you. This was really interesting. I read Fear and Trembling , The Seducer's Diary and Repetition. I never pretended to understand a lot but it's an incredible work. I wanted to read about a concept of anxiety and this book. So this presentation is valuable and helpful. I like the visual part of the video so much, too! Great work. 👏

[@SeanLucasYT]

I've been trying to think about that quote at the end, and I can't really explain why it gave me chills, but it did. Very interesting stuff here, you never disappoint!

[@Eternalised]

Hey Sean! Thanks a lot. Glad to see you back. Very true, its one of the most profound quotes from the book.

[@shcxatter2]

I think it's the music 😄

[@sidneylanglois8591]

I lived this way since the early childhood at 7 yrs old,from a shadow entirely enveloping me without mercy!!!

[@thesoberlife2788]

Just dropped in to see what relation my relation was in.

[@23ONEILL1]

Thank you very much for this. I was very confused by much of the book until listening to this.

[@Dacademeca]

"Life Is Not A Problem To Be Solved, But A Reality To Be Experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard P.S Great video bud! I really like this series of 10 min videos, also the video is exactly 10 min which is a cool niche, great work man and keep it up! You're definitely going to become big one day!

[@Eternalised]

Love that quote. Thanks for the uplifting words!

[@oguzkagan2389]

Thank you for this great channel ☺️

[@Eternalised]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@enbilerfrainitiald8529]

Amazing summary of the book. Made me want to read Kierkegaard.

[@Eternalised]

Thanks a lot! That's awesome, one of my main goals of making these videos.

[@reubenmarkham7417]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It shares some tones with the book I'm currently reading, A Tragic Sense of Life, whose author admires Kierkegaard.

[@Eternalised]

Thank you! Oh wow, Unamuno - I've read his Mist - very underrated existentialist!

[@kalanyou3275]

Thankyou and that outro music was great

[@satnamo]

Pleasant speech is the highest blessing.

[@Eternalised]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@satnamo]

@@Eternalised have you read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesdays_with_Morrie ? If not, Then I would like to send you a copy because it contains this: The way to bring meaning into my life is to devote my self to loving others and to be of service to my community and people I love.

[@Eternalised]

@@satnamo thanks for sharing will take a look!

[@InspirationFromThePast]

It's quite interesting philosopher which I recently come across, I don't think I learned about him in school so thank you for giving a brief summary about his philosophical views, I am always looking forward to your thoughtful narrations.

[@Eternalised]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed Kierkegaard, a fascinating individual.

[@InspirationFromThePast]

@@Eternalised He certainly was.

[@michaelrogers7463]

Life is too be understood backwards and lived forwards. I have always believed i see the world backwards. "Lived forward" is the bit i lacked🤣🤔 thank you 🙏

[@PhilosophyToons]

Great video! I dig all the artwork and the music. Yeah I definitely find myself lost in the infinite from time to time. Wbu?

[@Eternalised]

Thanks man! Yeah, absolutely, although mostly in the finite - strive for the balance:)

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[@balanceofwind5648]

I enjoyed a lot. Thanks for your great work! Btw, what is the music in the end? So upbeating and inspiring!

[@Eternalised]

Thank you. It is Metamorphosis - Myuu. You can find all the music credited in the description box

[@NihilisticRealism]

Of all the existential philosophers i've come to know of, I've always found Kierkegaard the hardest to relate to. To hold true the proposition that life arises via the will of godlike being is to warp ones entire perception of what's actually going on here, on such a fundamental level as to mislead every premise and conclusion that follows. Once you posit a god to exist, every event, stimulus, and answer then becomes framed in the context of a creation. Questions of being, and meaning, become questions of the character and mind of an assumed deity. It's hard to fully encapsulate here how entirely the god idea skews ones reasoning, on a fundamental level, to become a reasoning of confirmation and justification for the observed phenomena of the world in lieu of a foundational "truth" decided a priori . Philosophy then becomes a game of "making sense of gods plan", rather than a pursuit of understanding beyond what we would like to believe. I feel Kierkegaard often emulates this. His struggles, rooted in seeing the world as it is (in that he refused to pretend suffering wasnt real - to not pay it mind or "see" it) and yet he could not understand, in context of his belief in a god, how such suffering could come to be. I find there to be far more depth is abandoning the a priori position of belief in god. In realizing them to be phenomena of mind. "God" is up projecting ourselves outward. Seeing ourselves in reality, because its what we want to see. Gods are beings of fear and ignorance. Beings that exist, purely of mind, to help us to be less afraid, and to make it more ok that there's so much we dont know. But in committing to the assumption of our existence as a creation, one is blinded in the pursuit of actual understanding, as their mind is now limited to operating within the restraints of the assumption. This leads to many, many traps. In the realm of morality, epistemology, cosmology, and deeper. If you assume god, all reasoning that follows is skewed by that foundation. --------- (i address this further in both ""God" as a phenomena of mind" and "Morality and Meaning beyond God") ------------------- In terms of displaying Kierkegaard's ideas however, well done as always.

[@Eternalised]

That sounds similar to my current beliefs! Very well articulated. I do myself personally have trouble with believing in God, however, I find Kierkegaard's philosophy/theology quite refreshing especially because of the deep psychological note in it.

[@NihilisticRealism]

I can appreciate his perceptions and understandings of the human condition, even if i do not agree with him as to the origins or solutions - or "meaning" - of it.

[@TheApsodist]

Hey, I'm interested in your ideas, as someone who is coming from a completely different viewpoint. Have you read The Sickness Unto Death? How do you reconcile your beliefs with the recognition of despair? Have you come into contact with it, and have you dissected Kierkegaard's treatment of it? Furthermore we can discuss about his idea of offense and faith. An important thing to take note of is for Kierkegaard, philosophy is a way to discover God - indeed - as you say! Philosophy becomes a game of "what God's plan is," but then again, why is that so revulsive, or even wrong per se? If anything Kierkegaard shatters the illusion that Philosophy can give rise to Meaning - no, it is not Philosophy but indeed, well, God! Tl;dr if we assume God, then all reasoning is skewed, but why do we assume reason qua reason is good? If we assume a teleological imperative, we cannot assume reason will direct us teleologically anymore than God, and indeed the human mind teleologically finds God as its end with far less difficulty than it accepts reason as its end. If we discard the teleological imperative, then all is lost for ethics, and then there is no debate on what would be the correct way to do philosophy, as that shall be determined by ethics, and thus the religious way is not more or less correct. Nietzsche was on to something; but in Kierkegaard's terms, he could not overcome the offense of faith, and indeed fell into great suffering and hatred towards Christianity.

[@NihilisticRealism]

@@TheApsodist Hard to know where to begin here, honestly. And im too drained to give it my all All i'll do is highlight the falsity of assuming god to be required for meaning or morality to exist.. The leap to faith is the pinical of dishonesty - as it is the choice to abandon ones reasoning for the false confort brought by the idea it is pretending that the creation of meaning is not a purely human endeavor - so that we can place the roots of said meaning in the god concept but, this fails profoundly to realize that it's just you, either way. God belief or not, meaning is of us and only ever has been. all the god belief does it make it so a false sense of certainty is provided - a phenomena that does more harm than good by far i'll have to point you towards this channel : kzbin.info/door/J-vHE5CrGaL_ITEg-n3OeA in particular, his upload on comfort and on death. To see "philosophy as a way to discover god" is to ride the train of confirmation bias to the core... philosophy is a method of understanding what is most likely to be true of the world regardless of what is believed or what is desired to be true.. To assume god, then use philosophy only in attempt to prove the assumption - nothing else - is to blind oneself to any any all potential realizations that supersede the pre-decided belief.

[@NihilisticRealism]

@@Eternalised I think my last two comments went to your spam check system

[@jessicarehrig1180]

Dude. Mind blowing. 🤯😓🥺🇺🇸🦋🥶

[@finaldestination813]

Life is death and death is life.

[@shreddhead23]

Sweet👍😎❤️

[@sharonbre9347]

I recognize the heavy hand of Aristotelian Metaphysics in both Dante and Kierkegaard. Christianity, identified with the virtuous life, is the final, ultimate cause and reward for living the good life.

[@paulstan3042]

Amazing video! Can anyone please tell me the name of the painting used at 5:21? Thanks

[@Anarcath]

Kierkegaard: the man who wrote standing up.

[@satnamo]

I want to try that too

[@reimannx33]

Where all his legs straight?

[@whoaitstiger]

One does not simply make a video on existentialist philosophy without including Jan Matejko's painting of Stańczyk.

[@eduzz4655]

Si él hubiese estado en un ambiente católico en vez de uno luterano, tal vez no habría experimentado esa angustia. Al menos en esa época.

[@roger_isaksson]

Kierkegaard was a bit of a word gymnast. Wasn’t the term ‘self referential’ invented in his “era”? “This sentence defines self reference.” (The sentence references itself as it’s definition) Thus self reference is unbound if it is embodied as a ‘Matrjosjka doll’ of modeling processes embedded within and pointing to the ghost of ‘the outer shell’. I consider “I” as an evolving self referential model of yourself embedded within the process which gives other people the appearance of you. So how do you “model” yourself? 1. To be that which you are (innate) 2. How others might want you to be (a parody)

[@Nowhy]

Maybe learn the difference between circular reasoning and tautologies (all forms).. and if you want to engage with Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, perhabs it is wise to consider irony... Edit: autocorrect

[@tootai]

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[@A_Skeptic]

Damn man your voice 💧🧊

[@AC-hj9tv]

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[@shreyansengupta2594]

Isn't it written in Upanishads 🤔

[@hanskung3278]

Jesus Christ! Let's keep it simple!

[@michaelstone7546]

"Human being is spirit" plus biology, emotion, mass, mentality, physicality, psychology, and spirituality; not just spirit.

[@DeDona1]

This is why Jesus said you must lose your life to find it!

[@edthoreum7625]

2:20 salvation(+)//Christianity{-} 4:00 irony (concept of God ,paradox &absurd to defend w/ rational arguments,,,)

[@kuldeepjoshi8010]

More like soring Kierkegaard

[@nowhereman6019]

Not gonna lie, i think Kierkegaard would have been far better off mentally if not for Christianity and its paradoxes and absolutisms.

[@alexgregory7851]

If he had no relation to Christianity, what would make him better off mentally?

[@agnieszkakrupski959]

Did you read the book? You do not seem to grasp main ideas of it

[@passchallenge]

I really want to understand sk but it's so hard, he says faith is the opposite of sin, what does he mean by faith?

[@am-shak]

?

[@G.A.O.GJay24]

@@passchallenge it’s trust and hope in Christ

[@aruserios7632]

Video after video, you use the same images, and they seem to have little to do with the subject matter. Don't you think you should try a little harder?

[@sun_buddy]

no one pays attention to the images, this is like an audiobook or something