A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. 1813–55. Danish philosopher who spent his life as a pastor in Copenhagan and is normally considered the first EXISTENTIALIST. His principal interest was in ethics, where he emphasized the importance of pure choice, but, more than many later existentialists, developed his philosophy in a Christian framework. He also, like SCHOPENHAUER, reacted against the then prevalent philosophy of HEGEL.
Either/Or, 1843. Philosophical Fragments, 1844. The Concept of Dread, 1844. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments, 1846.
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