Philosophies for Life 78: Soren Kierkegaard - 4 Ways to Manage Your Anxiety (Existentialism)
Apr 10, 2025
24:03
In this podcast, we bring you 4 ways to manage your anxiety from the wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard. Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologist, writer, and culture critic born in the year 1813 and is widely regarded as the father of Existentialism.
So here are 4 ways to manage your anxiety from the wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard -
01. Use Your Anxiety
02. Acknowledge Regret
03. Embrace Absurdity
04. Realize That You Will Die
I hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and hope you find these insights form Soren Kierkegaard will help you in managing your anxiety.
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologist, writer, and culture critic born in the year 1813. He has published a fair amount of works in his lifetime, most written under various pseudonyms. These pseudonyms expressed all kinds of different, sometimes even contradicting, views that have caused historians trying to find Kierkegaard’s true beliefs to scratch their heads. Some of his pseudonyms were: Johannes Climacus, Anti-Climacus, Constantin Constantius, and ‘The Individual.’ Some of his most notable works are: ‘Either/or’, ‘Fear and Trembling’, ‘Sickness unto Death’, and ‘The Concept of Anxiety’. Kierkegaard is widely regarded as the father of Existentialism, a theory asserting that human beings possess no innate essence or fixed purpose and are free to determine their identity. Kierkegaard wrote extensively on this subject, although never using the term ‘existentialism’ himself.
So here are 4 ways to manage your anxiety from the wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard -
01. Use Your Anxiety
02. Acknowledge Regret
03. Embrace Absurdity
04. Realize That You Will Die
I hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and hope you find these insights form Soren Kierkegaard will help you in managing your anxiety.
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologist, writer, and culture critic born in the year 1813. He has published a fair amount of works in his lifetime, most written under various pseudonyms. These pseudonyms expressed all kinds of different, sometimes even contradicting, views that have caused historians trying to find Kierkegaard’s true beliefs to scratch their heads. Some of his pseudonyms were: Johannes Climacus, Anti-Climacus, Constantin Constantius, and ‘The Individual.’ Some of his most notable works are: ‘Either/or’, ‘Fear and Trembling’, ‘Sickness unto Death’, and ‘The Concept of Anxiety’. Kierkegaard is widely regarded as the father of Existentialism, a theory asserting that human beings possess no innate essence or fixed purpose and are free to determine their identity. Kierkegaard wrote extensively on this subject, although never using the term ‘existentialism’ himself.