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Therefore, people are continually engaged in shifting between forward and backward inference in both making and evaluating forecasts. Indeed, this can be eloquently summarized by Kierkegaard's observation that, "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards". [2]
There must come a moment, I say, when as Daub observes, life is understood backward through the idea… Some years later, Kierkegaard expanded on this idea in his journal, in a passage that is often quoted or paraphrased: Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backwards.
It outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment. Either/Or portrays two life views. Each life view is written and represented by a fictional author, with the prose reflecting and depending on the life view.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor; Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; [1] 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 [2]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first Christian existentialist philosopher.
These calls work in harmony, not opposition. Kierkegaard also writes in his Journals that life must be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Christina Rossetti echoed this in her poem Advent. Kierkegaard warns against looking to the past for Christianity's origin, citing Constantine and others as examples.
A Short Life of Kierkegaard is a book by Walter Lowrie. The book's first edition was published in 1938 by Oxford University Press simply under the title Kierkegaard . The book was influential for being the first English biography which covers both wider and lesser known areas of Søren Kierkegaard 's life, philosophy, and theology.
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Many of Kierkegaard's earlier writings from 1843 to 1846 were written pseudonymously. In the non-pseudonymous The Point of View of My Work as an Author, he explained that the pseudonymous works are written from perspectives which are not his own: while Kierkegaard himself was a religious author, the pseudonymous authors wrote from points of view that were aesthetic or speculative.