The Sickness Unto Death (Danish Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. It is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, particularly original sin. Anti-climacus introduces the book with a reference to Gospel of John 11.4: "This sickness is not unto death. " This quotation comes from the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raises a man from the dead.

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  • The Sickness Unto Death (Danish Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. It is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, particularly original sin. Anti-climacus introduces the book with a reference to Gospel of John 11.4: "This sickness is not unto death. " This quotation comes from the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raises a man from the dead. However, the question that Anti-climacus raises, would not this statement still be true even if Jesus had not raised Lazarus from the dead? While the human conception of death is the end, the Christian conception of death is merely another stop along the way of the eternal life. In this way, for the Christian, death is nothing to fear. The true "Sickness unto Death," which does not describe physical but spiritual death, is something to fear according to Anti-climacus. This sickness unto death is what Kierkegaard calls despair. According to Kierkegaard, an individual is "in despair" if he does not align himself with God or God's plan for the self. In this way he loses his self, which Kierkegaard defines as the "relation's relating itself to itself in the relation. " Kierkegaard defines humanity as the tension between the "finite and infinite", and the "possible and the necessary", and is identifiable with the dialectical balancing act between these opposing features, the relation. While humans are inherently reflective and self-conscious beings, to become a true self one must not only be conscious of the self but also be conscious of being aligned with a higher purpose, vis God's plan for the Self. When one either denies this Self or the power that creates and sustains this Self, one is in despair. There are three kinds of despair presented in the book: being unconscious in Despair of having a Self, not wanting in Despair to be Oneself, and wanting in Despair to be Oneself. The first of these is described as "inauthentic despair," because this despair is born out of ignorance. In this state one is unaware that one has a self separate from its finite reality. One does not realise that there is a God, and accepts finitude because one is unaware of possibility of being more inherent in Selfhood. The second type of despair is refusing to accept the Self outside of immediacy; only defining the self by immediate, finite terms. This is the state in which one realises that one has a self, but wishes to lose this painful awareness by arranging one's finite life so as to make the realisation unnecessary. This stage is loosely comparable to Sartre's bad faith. The third type is awareness of the Self but refusal to submit to the will of God. In this stage, one accepts the eternal and may or may not acknowledge the creator, but refuses to accept an aspect of the Self that one in reality is, that is to say, the Self that one has been created to be. To not be in despair is to have reconciled the finite with the infinite, to exist in awareness of one's own self and of God. Specifically, Kierkegaard defines the opposite of despair as faith, which he describes by the following: "In relating itself to itself, and in willing to be itself, the self rests transparently in the power that established it. " The Sickness Unto Death has strong existentialist themes. For example, the concept of the finite and infinite parts of the human self translate to the concepts of 'facticity' and 'transcendence' in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Kierkegaard's thesis is, of course, in other ways profoundly different from Sartre, most obviously because of Kierkegaard's belief that only religious faith can save the soul from Despair. This particular brand of existentialism is often called Christian existentialism. Some have suggested that the opening of the book is an elaborate parody of the often-times bafflingly cryptic philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Hegel; however, some scholars, such as Gregor Malantschuk, have suggested otherwise (Armed Neutrality and An Open Letter, Simon and Schuster, 1969, pp. 65-6 and n. 7 on pp. 165-6).
  • Die Krankheit zum Tode, 1849 unter dem Pseudonym Anti-Climacus erschienen, ist eines von Søren Kierkegaards späteren Werken. Es beschäftigt sich aus der Perspektive des Christentums mit dem existenziellen Problem der Verzweiflung. Beim Buchtitel handelt es sich um ein Bibelzitat. Das Werk ist in zwei Abschnitte unterteilt.
  • Sygdommen til Døden er en bok skrevet av den danske filosofen Søren Kierkegaard i 1849 under pseudonymet Anti-Climacus. Den handler om Kierkegaards begrep om eksistensiell fortvilelse, der han setter likhetstegn med det kristne begrepet om synd. Ifølge Kierkegaard er en person «fortvilet» hvis han ikke tilslutter seg Gud. På denne måten mister han sitt selv, hvilket Kierkegaard definerer som «relasjonen relaterer seg selv til seg selv i relasjonen». Det menneskelige selv er en syntese mellom det begrensede og det ubegrensede, det mulige og det faktiske og er identifiserbart med den dialektiske balanserende akt mellom disse motstridende ledd, relasjonen. Å ikke være fortvilet er å ha forsonet det begrensede med det ubegrensede å eksistere i bevissthet om ens eget selv og om Gud. Spesielt definerer Kierkegaard det motsatte av fortvilelse som tro, hvilket han beskriver ved det følgende: «I at relatere sig selv til sig selv, og i viljen til at være sig selv, hviler selvet transparent i den magt som grundlagde det. » Boken beskriver et antall måter mennesker vender seg fra selvet og fra Gud og antyder et sted at noen mennesker er stolte av sin fortvilelse og lar den står som et eksempel på Guds feilbarlighet likesom en feil i et manuskript som nekter å bli rettet. Denne teksten er en av hovedårsakene til at Kierkegaard defineres som en eksistensialist, fordi han illustrerer måter på hvilke ens subjektive selvoppfattelse bidrar til ens objektive identitet. Denne objektive identitet så Kierkegaard som et samarbeid med Gud i den kreative prosessen.
  • O Desespero Humano (Sygdommen til Døden em dinamarquês, literalmente "A Doença até à Morte") é um livro escrito pelo filósofo dinamarquês Søren Kierkegaard em 1849 sob o pseudônimo Anti-Climacus. Trata o conceito de desespero de Kierkegaard, equiparado ao conceito cristão de pecado. Muitos dos termos utilizados nesta obra mostram um conexão inegável com os conceitos utilizados mais tarde por Freud.
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  • Front cover of the Princeton University Press edition from 1983.
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  • The Sickness Unto Death (Danish Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. It is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, particularly original sin. Anti-climacus introduces the book with a reference to Gospel of John 11.4: "This sickness is not unto death. " This quotation comes from the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raises a man from the dead.
  • Die Krankheit zum Tode, 1849 unter dem Pseudonym Anti-Climacus erschienen, ist eines von Søren Kierkegaards späteren Werken. Es beschäftigt sich aus der Perspektive des Christentums mit dem existenziellen Problem der Verzweiflung. Beim Buchtitel handelt es sich um ein Bibelzitat. Das Werk ist in zwei Abschnitte unterteilt.
  • Sygdommen til Døden er en bok skrevet av den danske filosofen Søren Kierkegaard i 1849 under pseudonymet Anti-Climacus. Den handler om Kierkegaards begrep om eksistensiell fortvilelse, der han setter likhetstegn med det kristne begrepet om synd. Ifølge Kierkegaard er en person «fortvilet» hvis han ikke tilslutter seg Gud. På denne måten mister han sitt selv, hvilket Kierkegaard definerer som «relasjonen relaterer seg selv til seg selv i relasjonen».
  • O Desespero Humano (Sygdommen til Døden em dinamarquês, literalmente "A Doença até à Morte") é um livro escrito pelo filósofo dinamarquês Søren Kierkegaard em 1849 sob o pseudônimo Anti-Climacus. Trata o conceito de desespero de Kierkegaard, equiparado ao conceito cristão de pecado. Muitos dos termos utilizados nesta obra mostram um conexão inegável com os conceitos utilizados mais tarde por Freud.
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