Though patriotism has traditionally been considered a virtue, in many countries of the world today, status as virtue challenged. Philosopher John Hare recently defended virtue. Kierkegaard, with his suspicion “the crowd” and attack on “Christendom” sometimes thought to be one critics patriotism. This paper argues that Kierkegaard’s view is actually close Hare’s. Kierkegaard does believe can tho...

Philosophers and Poets, from their perch on the cutting edge of reason, have always seen the advantage of anxiety. It is the “dizziness of reason,” argued Soren Kierkegaard; “the handmaiden of creativity,” said T.S. Eliot; “the beginning of conscience,” observed novelist Angela Carter. So have actors backstage, summoning eternal energies and edges for the roles they play, and sprinters on the b...

The paper will examine and compare features of the self within selected writings of Kierkegaard and Freud. Granted their objectives cover different perspectives, i.e. man’s spiritual qualities vis-à-vis his natural qualities; qualities that indeed call attention to their dissimilarities, I shall nevertheless make an effort to point out similarities. I believe that what would seem as “irreconcil...