week 6 blog 2

Kierkegaard had some profound ideas.  The idea of the three spheres kind of interested me.  I thought the discussion on it was very intriguing.  The aesthetic sphere seems to be the hardest to live in.  A life without self-reflection.  Kierkegaard’s aesthetic existence is about momentary and immediate satisfaction.  So what if self-reflection is satisfying?  Does that person leave the aesthetic and go into the ethical, just because they self-reflected? If the self-reflection causes feelings of guilt then it would be fine to say yes.  But what if there wasn’t any guilt?  What if there is but the person decides to ignore it? Are they still the aesthete? Or are they the ethical?  Another thing that comes to my mind is moving between the spheres.  Can a person freely move between the spheres? Or is there only a linear path?  And how does one know what sphere they exist in, especially the aesthetic.    Another interesting thing that came up, was that Kierkegaard pretty much said that it doesn’t matter which sphere you exist in, as long as you have passion.  But what does this mean?  It would seem to me that each sphere would have a different understanding of passion or subjective truth.  Would the Aesthetic see passion as whatever they can do to make themselves’ happy? Or would it be fighting the despair of our pointless lives?  What about the Ethical?  Would the Ethical’s passion be trying to make the world a better place?  Maybe they would just passionate about sticking to their morals.  And then there’s the religious.  Passion for the religious would be following their religion.  Believing just for the sake of believing.  It kind of seems to me, that Kierkegaard is saying something along the lines of, as long as you have passion, life isn’t completely pointless.