![]() The self is a relation which relates to itself… A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity… A synthesis is a relation between two terms. With an eye to this spiritual sickness, he writes: ![]() (Available as a print.)įor Kierkegaard, the spirt and the self are one and despair is a sickness in them - one exposing the gap between the self that is, the self that keeps us small, and the self that can be, the vast eternal self of full potentiation. ![]() Cook for a rare 1913 edition of Leaves of Grass. That is what Søren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813–November 11, 1855) explores in his characteristically grimly titled and characteristically deeply insightful 1849 book The Sickness Unto Death ( public library), so radical in some of its ideas that he published it under a pseudonym. To accept that there can be no happiness without despair is to recognize that, rather than a malady of the spirit, despair is the rudder course-correcting the ship of the self, steering it from the actual to the ideal. ![]() This is what governs us,” artist Maira Kalman observed in her illustrated chronicle of the pursuit of happiness. “There is no love of life without despair of life,” Albert Camus wrote as he reckoned with the rudiments of happiness. ![]()
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