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Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)

Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer

December 11, 202342m 7s

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Show Notes

On "The Balance Between the Esthetic and the Ethical in the Development of the Personality" from Vol. 2 of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1843).

What is choice? Kierkegaard's character Judge William criticizes the aesthete from our previous episode on the earlier part of this book: The aesthete doesn't make any authentic choices and so doesn't develop a coherent self.

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