PHL 366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-12: Søren Kierkegaard, Totalitarianism, Flash Mob
12 Jan 2017
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No men left having possessed spontaneity to commit an outrageous folly (1) On the idea of suicide: it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation (i. e, thinking carefully and considerably about suicide was not the factor of suicide, it was thinking carefully and considerably in his life that led him to suicide. It is to say that spontaneity could have saved him) There are many indications of things about to happen or having them happen, yet these conclusions are wrong. Dispassion; the excuse for remaining in bed (4), having only fallen asleep towards morning (4) Man no longer possesses the strength, nor suitable environment to free him and the shrewdest way out of difficult situations is to do nothing at all. A revolutionary age, by his definition, is an age of action , while ours is the age of advertisement and publicity (6)
