Kierkegaard argues against Hegel that an Existential system is impossible

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Kierkegaard

• Kierkegaard argues against Hegel that an Existential system is impossible. What does he mean by this?
• What is his assessment of the Aesthetic individual, who flees from himself and despairs at existing, while living under the categories of the interesting and the boring?
• How does the Aesthetic contrast with the Ethical life whose categories of good and evil involve choice and commitment?
• Why do both of the Aesthetic & Ethical fall short of Faith in the Religious and fail to overcome the despair of being oneself?
• Describe in detail the different types of despair including Infinitude, Finitude, and Defiance. What is sin?
• Why is Faith a leap & why does it involve “objective uncertainty”.
• How can faith resolve the conflict of becoming ourselves by being transparently grounded in the power that established it?


Nietzsche

• Nietzsche’s criticism of philosophy and its errors that have culminated in the distinction between the apparent and true worlds?
• How is the Death of God symptomatic of the Collapse of this distinction between the apparent & true world?
• How has it impacted western morality with the rise of nihilism?
• What is Nietzsche’s assessment of the history of Master/Slave Morality?
• How have resentment and pity given rise to a new form of valuation based on Revenge in Slave Morality?
• Characterize Nietzsche’s view of the Overman, his new assessment of the body, will to power, and amor fati.
• In what way is the overman an answer to the value of life?