By Soren Kierkegaard
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Writing lower than the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the idea that of "despair," alerting readers to the range of the way within which they are defined as residing during this kingdom of bleak abandonment—including a few which could appear simply the opposite—and delivering a much-discussed formulation for the eradication of melancholy. With its penetrating account of the self, this overdue paintings by way of Kierkegaard used to be highly influential upon twentieth-century philosophers together with Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The ailment unto loss of life might be considered as one of many key works of theistic existentialist thought—a remarkable and revelatory resolution to 1 man's fight to fill the non secular void.
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The devil’s despair is the most intense despair, for the devil is sheer spirit, and therefore absolute consciousness and transparency; in the devil there is no obscurity which might serve as a mitigating excuse, his despair is therefore absolute defiance. This is the maximum of despair. The minimum of despair is a state which (as one might humanly be tempted to express it) by reason of a sort of innocence does not even know that there is such a thing as despair. So when consciousness is at its minimum the despair is least; it is almost as if it were a dialectical problem whether one is justified in calling such a state despair.
Necessity is like a sequence of consonants only, but in order to utter them there must in addition be possibility. When this is lacking, when a human existence is brought to the pass that it lacks possibility, it is in despair, and every instant it lacks possibility it is in despair. One commonly thinks that there is a certain age which is especially rich in hope, or one talks about being or having been at a certain period or a particular moment of one’s Life so rich in hope and possibility. All this is merely human talk, which never reaches the truth.
Therefore they cannot endure what even to them seems a contradiction, and which as reflected from the world around them appears much more glaring, that to be concerned for one’s own soul and to want to be spirit is a waste of time, yes, an inexcusable waste of time, which ought if possible to be punishable by law, at all events is punished by contempt and ridicule as a sort of treason against men, as a froward madness which crazily fills up time with nothing. Then there is a period in their lives (alas, their best period) when they begin after all to take the inward direction.
Sickness unto Death A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Soren Kierkegaard
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