Monday, October 26, 2015
Despair?
After reading part of The Sickness unto Death, I found the word "despair" starting to sound funny. It is a common theme that is repeated and even though it is talked about a lot, I still do not fully understand what point he is trying to get across. So for now, I will just bring up what I commented on, and that is that I found it interesting that he said we may not even know if we are in despair. At some point during my reading, I looked up the definition of despair. I found, "loss of hope; hopelessness, someone or something that causes hopelessness." I do not understand can not know when they feel these things. Maybe Kierkegaard's definition of despair is different from my idea of despair.
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Maybe Kierkagard is saying that we can become so used to despair - that feelings of hopelessness become the norm for our mindset. The feelings of despair could be masked on the outside and hidden so deep inside ourselves that we do not even realize they are there until our hearts are stripped down, and the darkness is revealed.
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