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Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

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Noun1.Soren Aabye Kierkegaard - Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)


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Just as Abraham had to sacrifice Isaac because of God's commandment, so he, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, had to give up Regine--because of his "melancholy," because he was an exceptional, God-touched individual, maybe because he had visited a prostitute when he was twenty.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard - Proto existentialist philosopher of the 19th century.
 
 
 
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