Soren Kierkegaard. Definition of faith through the concept of sin. Stages of human existence
Søren Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen in 1813 to a wealthy wool merchant. At the age of 17, in 1830, in accordance with his father’s wishes, Kierkegaard began his studies at the theological faculty of the University of Copenhagen. Physically much weaker than his peers, Kierkegaard stood out against their background with his extraordinary intellectual abilities. In 1840, he passed the exam in theology, and in 1841 he successfully defended his master’s dissertation “On the Concept of Irony with a Constant Glance at Socrates.” Irony and humor, as two basic forms of the comic, play a far from accidental role in Kierkegaard’s teaching. Kierkegaard returns to these concepts in his subsequent works.