Either/Or

Kierkegaard is considered philosophy's first existentialist. He was a very religious person who lived in Denmark. He was very much against the empirism of Hegel and his philosophy of history. The "Either" of Kierkegaard's philosophy is that of the Aesthetic man. It is a person who looks for pleasure in life. The reason he looks for pleasure is because his life is full of boredom. It is this boredom that...