Kierkegaard

[Machiavelli]

As time has gone on, the writings of Soren Kierkegaard have really begun to resonate with me.

Do you think that it would be accurate to describe Kierkegaard as an INTP?

[Hazy]

I agree. One of the main things he does is concentrate on expanding the readers reflection skills.

In that he's similar to Nietzsche, but far more of Kierkegaard was written in prose, and alot easier to make out than Nietzsche's scattered aphorisms.

http://www.publicappeal.org/library/nietzsche/select.htm

'The Gay science' and 'Human, All Too Human' are good starting places. Or you could skip both and just read 'Thus Spoke Z', which he considered 'The best book ever written' which condensed everything he had to say about life. The style however, put me off it, but some may like it.

[Google Monster]

hazy's avatar is cool ;)

[cloakable]

This looks like very good material. I'll post up my opinion when I've read all the texts.

[Johnny]

Kierkegaard possessed overwhelming personal expectations for both himself and others...it is the driving force for his philosophical work. In that respect, I would say that he's INTP, but I would not then recommend that one model one's life after him for it. :sombrero:

[Machiavelli]

Kierkegaard possessed overwhelming personal expectations for both himself and others...it is the driving force for his philosophical work. In that respect, I would say that he's INTP, but I would not then recommend that one model one's life after him for it. :sombrero:

All very interesting stuff. I think it's significant to place Kierkegaard's work within the context of his overbearing, deeply depressive father, who believed that he was an object of God's wrath. In the case of Kierkegaard, I wonder whether his INTP personality was a result of his genes, his troubled childhood, or both. If Kierkegaard had experienced a happier childhood, would we have been without one of this century's most profound and insightful philosophers?

[Laeskis]

I'm reading this forum and I've no relevent opinion to the topic...but I absolutely must make a post, out of place and odd as it may be. A statement was made ending with "...I would not then recommend that one model one's life after him for it."
If I'm strange, wierd or whatever for making the comment I want to make...then so be it.
Please, please, please don't make a reference to modelling one's life after anyone.
The above statement implies (to me, and probably to me only) that one should model their life after someone, only not after him.
Just the thought of someone modelling their life after someone else makes me physically nauseous. (literally)
BTW I am absolutely sure that the comment was very innocent, and sarcastic. I am also aware that I am taking the statement far too seriously, but I would also say that I had an itch that had to be scratched.

[Johnny]

Your inference is duly noted.

[Laeskis]

:thumbup: