Imagine being Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish existentialist. The command to "love your neighbor as yourself" was not confusing for him. It was a challenge—a deeply personal and moral imperative.

Key points. Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard challenged people to think of love as a duty rather than as simply an emotion. Thinking of love as a duty can help it endure change, making it stronger.

Scholars can be like children in a schoolyard. We push one another around, turn our noses up and have our cliques. On the terrain that I know best, the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, today’s ...

Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) is generally recognised as the first existentialist philosopher, but unlike many other existentialists, there is a strong theological vein running through his ...

Kierkegaard’s conception gave rise to the phrase “leap of faith”—though it is doubtful that he himself ever used the exact expression. Read: The virtues of boredom ...

As a role model for future generations of angsty, overwrought people, Søren Kierkegaard does not disappoint. The “father of existentialism” puzzles us with philosophical texts, disorients us ...

And it was out of this suffering that Søren Kierkegaard laid siege to the reigning European philosophy and the comfortable Christianity of his day. Forsaking love Kierkegaard was born in ...

It sounds like a Monty Python sketch, but a performance dubbed 'Soren Kierkegaard - The Musical' is being used to teach the Danish about one of their most famous, and most misunderstood, exports.

Scholars can be like children in a schoolyard. We push one another around, turn our noses up and have our cliques. On the terrain that I know best, the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, today’s ...