Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:17.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life. |
| 0:22.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who |
| 0:24.3 | were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:28.0 | Our question for episode 331 is something like what is choice and we read an essay by |
| 0:34.0 | so on Kirkregard called The Balance Between the Aesthetic and the Ethical and |
| 0:37.8 | the Development of the Personality from volume two of either or published in |
| 0:42.4 | 1843. |
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