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The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin is unavailable, but you can change that!

Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view Søren Kierkegaard’s longstanding concern with the Socratic maxim, “Know yourself.” His ontological view of the self as a synthesis of body, soul, and spirit has influenced philosophers such as Heidegger and Sartre, theologians such as Jaspers and Tillich, and psychologists such as Rollo May. In The Concept...

thereby the simple consequence of a previous state. For Høffding, a presuppositionless leap would abrogate the strict continuity required in every science. Yet this is precisely Kierkegaard’s point, namely, that the “qualitative leap” is a category outside the scope of scientific procedures and that its confirmation is therefore not reducible to the principles of verification assumed by the sciences. Kierkegaard expressed this difference by positing not only psychosomatic dimensions in human existence
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