Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on
Unfinished sketch of Kierkegaard by his cousin Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Royal Library, Copenhagen, c. 1840
Søren Kierkegaard.―Hand-drawn copy (1895) of a pencil drawing in the portraiture collection of the Royal Library
When Michael (Mikael) Kierkegaard died on 9 August 1838, Søren had lost both his parents and all his brothers and sisters except for Peter who later became Bishop of Aalborg in the Danish State Lutheran Church.
From left to right: Wolff, Holberg, Hamann, Lessing, Plato and Socrates, all of whom became influences in Kierkegaard's philosophy.
Fear and Trembling is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio. It is widely regarded as one of Kierkegaard's most influential texts and a
Søren Kierkegaard
…reveal the inner workings of the world of the spirit. Some of Kierkegaard's key ideas include the concept of "subjective and objective truths", the knight of faith, the recollection and repetition dichotomy, angst, the infinite qualitative distinction, faith as a passion, and the three stages on life's way…
Front cover of the Penguin Classics edition
The Sacrifice of Isaac, Caravaggio (1603)
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Charles de La Fosse (~1680)
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, David (1789)