Da genialidade sensível ao amor à norma: existência e consciência em Kierkegaard

Abstract

The intention of this thesis is to dwell on three small, specific texts in the work Either/Or from Danish Soren Aybe Kierkegaard (1813-1855). The first two texts are The erotic immediate states and Seducer's Diary, and are among the texts of the first part of the aforementioned book. The third text entitled The balance between the esthetical and the ethical in shaping the personality and belongs to the second part of the same book. The basis of a detailed explanation of the contents of these texts intends to consider the issue of Kierkegaardian stages (aesthetic, ethical and religious) and how they relate to the existence and consciousness. Within the concrete existence, the question of consciousness appears to the Danish philosopher from the explanation of these three existential dimensions, which are constituted in line with affective provisions and also with material modes of living and acting closely described by the daily existence of character. Bereft, initially, of any determination, the conscience will be materializing itself stemming from its sensitive existence, which keeps different moments and possibilities of its own. The basic thesis being discussed in this context is that these existential moments cannot be considered an evolutionary process, but must be taken as possibilities or ways of life, with its positivity and its risks. This study aims to show how the current readings of Kierkegaard's philosophy tend to value the ethical and moral development of stadiums and ignore the dimension of being more original, the immediate dimension which, when neglected, creates a gap between man and himself.