Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
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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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