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Biography Soren Kierkegaard was born on 5th may, 1813, in Copenhagen, a small provincial town, the seat of Government and, at the time the intellectual centre of Scandinavia, with its University and its learned Academies – a closely-knit society which provided Kierkegaard with a clinical specimen of the social and political intellectual and religious currents of the day, which he could consult like a barometer. He spent his life in a brilliant literary career, producing an extraordinary number of books before his death in 1855 at the age of 42. Kierkegaard was trained in Hegel’s philosophy but was not favourably impressed by it and He agreed with the attack on German greatest speculative thinker. His is known with his popular dictum “truth is subjectivity and subjectivity is truth.” SOREN KIERKEGAARD’S PHILOSPHY KIERKEGAARD’S METAPHYSICS                      ...

Hegel is the most influential of the three major German Idealists after Kant (the others are Johan Fitche and Friedrich Schelling). He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, he also became increasingly influential in the Analytic tradition as well. Hegel has influenced many thinkers and writers whose own positions vary widely like, Karl Barth described Hegel as a “Protestant Aquinas”, while Maurice Merleau- Ponty wrote that “all the great philosophical ideas of the past century- the philosophies of Marx and Nietzche, Phenomenology, German existentialism, and psychoanalysis had their beginnings in Hegel.  Hegel’s influenced was immense both within philosophy and in the other sciences. Throughout the 19th century many chairs of philosophy around Europe were held by Hegelians, and Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx, and Friedrich Engels- among many others were deeply influenced by, but also strongly oppos...