Notes for 12/2/2025
12/2/2025 [Philosophy Club every Tuesday at 5:00pm in CAS 436 ("The Cave")] [Challenge for today: Try to think of (and possibly ask) at least one question.] Would you want to be perfectly rational? Soren Kierkegaard (SK) Philosophy linked to biography & to pseudonyms (facades? Personae?) SK’s different perspectives manifest the complexities of thought and experience (unclear how much was autobiographical). Vociferous critic of “Christendom” (Christianity as banal, safe, perfunctory, self-congratulatory) Sought “Existential completeness” “Anxiety is freedom’s possibility.” (Being free isn’t for the faint of heart.) Only spiritual beings experience anxiety (because of freedom). But also, only they can feel liberated . Anxiety is unavoidable. All significant choices are subject to regret. “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will a...