Soren Kierkegaard451 definitions
Abraham (n.) is caught up in a contradiction where, ethically, he meant to murder Isaac, but religiously he meant to sacrifice him.
The Absurd (n.) is (as paradox) composed in such a way that it is a symbol, a riddle, over which reason has no power at all to dissolve it in nonsense and prove that it is nonsense.
The Absurd (n.) is a concept whereby it is precisely grasping the fact that it cannot and must not be grasped.
The Absurd (n.) is not to be found within the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
The Absurd (n.) is that the eternal truth has come into existence in time, that God has come into existence, has been born, has grown up, etc., has come into existence exactly as an individual human being, indistinguishable from any other human being.
The Absurd (n.) is the source of meaningfulness.
Actuality (n.) is nothing other than possibility when approached from the domain of knowledge.
Adversity (n.) not only draws people together, but it brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
The Aesthetic (n.) is that in a person by which he spontaneously and immediately is what he is while the ethical is that by which he becomes what he becomes.
The Aesthetic (n.) is the temporal (and thus fleeting) life of the senses expressed generally through artistic creativity.
Aesthetics (n.) is contrasted with ethics in that the person who lives ethically sees tasks everywhere while the man who lives aesthetically sees possibilities everywhere.
The Anguish of Abraham (n.) is the notion that abraham had to determine how he might know that the angel was real and that he was really being addressed and not that he was like a crazy woman who hears voices from God.
Anxiety (n.) is a fear, but a fear of nothing. Its object, as nothing, imparts to nothing some measure of content.
Anxiety (n.) is a manifestation of human freedom.
Anxiety (n.) is a qualification of dreaming spirit. Awake, the difference between myself and my other is posited... sleeping, it is suspended... dreaming, it is an intimated nothing.
Anxiety (n.) is a sickness of the human spirit rather than of the psyche alone.
Anxiety (n.) is a sympathetic antipathy and antipathetic sympathy.
Anxiety (n.) is a sympathetic antipathy and antipathetic sympathy. That is, it is not a bodily sensation, rather it is phenomenal.
Anxiety (n.) is in itself contradictory in that it represents an orientation that is both attractive and frightening.
Anxiety (n.) is an existential emotion insofar as it is always related to the individual subject. It is the event for the development of subjectivity, it is 'the instant in the individual life.
