Abstract

In the story of his life published posthumously as “a report to history” under the title of “The Point of View for My Work as An Author” Kierkegaard sums up his own position as a thinker. “I was conscious” he says, “of being a religious author and as such was concerned with ‘the individual’, a thought in which is contained an entire philosophy of life and of the world.” Reality, he believes, must be sought for and can only be found in the individual’s own existence; and although existence has aesthetic and ethical as well as religious determinants, it is in the sphere of the religious that existence finds its meaning.[...]