Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 10, Equilibrium Summary and Analysis

The section of the book covered here begins with page 200. As in the case of the preceding work, there is no built in division such as a chapter or other headings or page breaks in the original book. The division found in the summary is artificial. The page opens while the author is deep into a discussion of repentance. Repentance is simply the activity of mending our ways or making small or large changes when we realize that we had done something wrong. Whatever the error was caused by - an emotional attitude, wrong information, spite, or hurts to which one was subjected setting off an attitude of retaliation, repentance is the process of altering one's approach to a given matter with the intention of improvement. In this context, this would often involve...