![]() That is, not considering enough possibilities and just mindlessly going around the demands of culture and social expectations. The other part Kierkegaard emphasises is the finite. However, one may possess the ability to freely act, but if one never uses it and gets lost in the infinite, thinking about an endless sea of possibilities, they are effectively not capable of freely acting. If you ask someone if they are an individual, they will undoubtedly say yes. We have an infinite number of possibilities, and when we have to choose one, we become overwhelmed at the sheer amount of them. Which is worse than dread, you don’t see it coming, you just know something is wrong. It is deeper than anxiety, it is a sort of dread, however – dread without an object. Angst is one of the primary features of Kierkegaard’s philosophy. ![]() ![]() It is the anxiety of understanding freedom when considering undefined possibilities of one’s life and one’s power of choice over them. Human beings enjoy a freedom of choice that we find both appealing and terrifying. His concept of anxiety or angst is one of the most profound pre-Freudian works of psychology. One of his famous quotes is “anxiety is the dizziness of freedom”. ![]() ![]() The Sickness Unto Death is a life changing book about the despair of not being one’s true self and also quite short at around a few hundred pages long, depending on the version. Kierkegaard spends most of his writing talking about concepts such as anxiety or angst and despair. ![]()
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