Søren Kierkegaard In Modern Life Analysis

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) is counted among the most influential thinkers of history. The Kierkegaard 's thought can be associated with three noteworthy periods of history of ideas: in the first place, he lived a period of creative production in Denmark called Danish Golden Age and was a man of his times in his critical reflection of his own Danish culture. He built a penetrating analyse of the remarkable episodes and intellectual tradition inherited by his generation in the 19th century. Next, what is significant is that the model he set before himself was not among his coevals; the man he considered worthy of imitation lived over two before him, namely, Socrates. According to Hegel, the Greek philosopher was a turning point of western history.

The relevance of his thoughts can be extended to our very age and to our personal experience, insofar as many of the issues he faced in his epoch are in sundry aspects similar to those we face today in modern life, as the problems associated with subjectivism, relativism and nihilism. The far-reaching implications of Kierkegaard 's opinions is proved by diverse philosophical schools of thought that supported or attacked his philosophical views.
Kierkegaard 's ideas are not only valuable in academic field, but also in everyday life. The temptation of nihilism seduces many. Skepticism, incertitude and absence of meaning are typical of modern life and even seem characterize this age. We belong to the highly developed global societies that the Polish sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, calls liquid modernity. So there seems to be nothing fixed to hold on to. Custom and tradition do not offer anymore a satisfying answer to our

Actually, even if we are inclined to consider traditional values as reduced to the family values, some dramatic changes over the past decades lead us to conclude that the family itself as an institution is not built over unshakable fundaments. If we take into account, for exemplifying purposes, the new types of family structures, as cohabitation, gay marriage and single parents, "bonus children" and "bonus parents", it is easily perceived that the family looks different from what it used to do. All this invites us to think again about our long-established or inherited concepts. As we lose all fixed reference, we are obliged to become awake and conscious to exercise any