The Paradox Of Survival

Kierkegaard (Denmark) (1813 -1855):Mysticism philosopher, Existentialism esthetician, Christian thinkers of the 19th century. He was strongly opposed to Plato, Aristotle Kant, Hegel's philosophy as the representative of The Speculation Philosophy, instead of using the type of individual on the immediate survival of the aesthetic thinking through criticising The Speculation Philosophy, he opened his own survival theological path. On the one hand, he cleared up the mighty thinking tradition formed by speculative philosophy in his thinking context and understanded the most real state of survival that is really ridiculous—nothingness. He used the supremacy of rational criticism to resolute The Speculation Philosophy that has become the strength of traditional thinking, and understanded the survival of the state that is really ridiculous– nothingness. Facing the issue that is the entire true of survival --absurdity of survival, he put forward the aesthetic life. Because he contended the survival is absurd, removing the nothingness of the essence of survival through understanding aesthetics is invalid. Nothingness has gone beyond the realm of the aesthetics, that's to say, the aesthetic person only enjoys and experiences the immediate outlook of survival. However, the joy is present and immediate feelings. No matter brilliant it is, it is the disposable consumption, the happy moment will never be repeated, and he eventually returned to the nothingness. After Kierkegaard described the richly colorful aesthetic life , and he contended that aesthetic state couldn't escape their despairing fate because of the lack of "faith". So he thought that life must leap from the aesthetic person to religious person , that's to say , in order to break away from nothingness, he must find the foundation of "individual" survival from the faith in the God at last, which constitutes the survival paradox, namely"individual enters the stage alone and faces directly the God": The individual is only responsible to oneself, responsible to the God at the same time.