PHENOMA practical book for schools 2019 PHENOMA practical book for schools 2019

A Philosophical Dossier on Happiness KIERKEGAARD: Happiness is… an illusion 22 Short biography The Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard 23 (1813-1855) believed that philosophy should focus on deep questions related to God, humanity, ethics , and meaning in life. In keeping with his belief that philosophy should be relevant to our daily lives and speak to our deepest concerns, Kierkegaard discusses a process by which human beings can acquire deep satisfaction and become authentic persons. In order to understand this process he often discusses the stages on life’s way. 22 “Happiness—the greatest hiding place for despair” “Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in your elevation the splendour of the crown or in humble obscurity only the toil and heat of the day; whether your name will be remembered for as long as the world lasts, and so will have been remembered as long as it lasted, or you are without a name and run namelessly with the numberless multitude; whether the glory that surrounded you surpassed all human description, or the severest and most ignominious human judgment was passed on you -- eternity asks you and every one of these millions of millions, just one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not, whether so in despair that you did not know that you were in despair, or in such a way that you bore this sickness concealed deep inside you as your gnawing secret, under your heart like the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that, a terror to others, you raged in despair. If then, if you have lived in despair, then whatever else you won or lost, for you everything is lost, eternity does not acknowledge you, it never knew you, or, still more dreadful, it knows you as you are known, it manacles you to yourself in despair!” (The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening) “A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.” (Either/Or: A Fragment of Life) 23 For more details https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ethics-everyone/201206/achieving-happiness-advice-kierkega ard 8

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