taken the phrase ‘truth is subjectivity’ to mean that if an individual wholly and passionately embraces and lives by a particular idea, then this idea will be true for him or her. They assume that Kierkegaard is dismissing the whole idea of objective truth and making the final determinant of truth a particular individual’s subjective state. This type of approach was to give birth to a whole movement in philosophy called existentialism which, essentially, demanded that individuals should be ‘authentic