''DESPAIR'' IN KIERKEGAARD'S ''THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH''
KIERKEGAARD'IN ''ÖLÜMCÜL HASTALIK''INDA ''UMUTSUZLUK''

Author : Emel KOÇ
Number of pages : 57-77

Abstract

According to Kierkegaard, despair is the sickness unto death. He insists that in a particular sense the sickness unto death is not biological death. Conversely,the agony of this despair is specifically the ''inability to die''.This despair is the hopelessness of not being able to die-even when we wish it.Suicide will not help this type of despair. Human beings are a synthesis of spiritual and physical elements,and despair is a misrelation between these elements. Kierkegaard defines despair primarily as a sickness of the self. The solution to despair is a condition in which the i

Keywords

Self, Synthesis, Spirit, Anxiety, Despair, Faith.

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