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405 Kierkegaard Falls in Love

The History of Literature

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Kirkegarde's Scoldings

Kirkegard gives us a flavor of his father in one of his writingsq, at lunch one day, i overturned a salt shaker. He began to scold so severely that he even said that i was a prodigal and things like that. It's this kind of outside the box thinking that was handed down to kirkegarde. There's a paradox there. The first thought would be, the more costly the damage, the worse the anger and the discipline thescolding, the more severe it should be. We'll get to that in a moment.

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