Using Kant's idea that the only thing we can know is experience as a stepping-off place, Kierkegaard claimed that experience is of three kinds: Aesthetic, Ethical, and Religious. Please cite examples that will further elaborate the meaning of each category.
2007-10-05 03:59:21 · 2 answers · asked by oscar c 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thank you Drgirish.. That was really very consistently enlightening.
2007-10-05 07:05:52 · update #1
Perhaps Kierkegaard's 'three stages in life' could be seen as evolutionary.
Aesthetical Stage: where pleasure shall be the guiding principles in life.
Ethical stage: Now man had become little more matured, he started realising the futility of mere mundane pleasure, so he turns to morals and ethics, values and such things.
Religious Stage: Being ethical for some time, he still experiences restlessness, and then slowly moves towards religion, and perhaps transcendence.
2007-10-05 05:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Girishkumar TS 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We move from one to the other. Just because we hit the highest- religious- doesn't mean we're all set. We fall away, and back.......Aesthetic: Love myself- sex, drugs, rock and roll, Ethical: Obey God, Religious: Love God.
2007-10-06 00:09:27 · answer #2 · answered by almac 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋