Stages on Life’s Way

by Søren Kierkegaard

  engagement to Regine, xv, 505–07, 514, 660–61, 713

  in Berlin, vii–viii, ix, 744

  polyonymity, xiii, xvi, 646–51

  pseudonyms, 659–60

  Constantin Constantius, xiv, 21, 22, 23, 402, 437, 511, 534, 544, 547, 550, 651, 652, 677, 678–79; as banquet host, 26–31, 47, 80–81, 536–39, 556; speech of, 47–56, 515

  Frater Taciturnus, x, xii, xvi, 661; as nonreligious, 428, 435, 440, 463, 485–87; as seducer, 491–92; as street inspector, 470

  Hilarius Bookbinder, xiv, xvi, 1, 3–6, 516–17, 654, 675

  Johannes Climacus, x, xiv, xvii, 696, 737

  Johannes de Silentio, xiv

  Johannes the Seducer, 21, 22, 23, 28, 47, 511, 534, 536, 651, 678–79; speech of, 71–80, 513, 556–60

  Judge William, vii, xi, 82–85, 87–184, 514, 560, 651, 679, 696

  Nicolaus Notabene, xiv, 508, 517, 744, 748

  Victor Eremita, xiii, xvi, 21, 22, 23, 27–28, 82, 85–86, 511–12, 534, 536–37, 544, 560–61, 678–79; on banquets, 24–25; speech of, 56–65, 515, 552–53

  Vigilius Haufniensis, xiv, 747

  William Afham, ix, 86, 652, 744

  works cited:

  “The Activity of a Traveling Esthetician and How He Happened to Pay for the Dinner,” xvi, 676

  The Book on Adler, xi, 655, 749

  The Concept of Anxiety, ix, xiv, xvi, 515, 705, 711, 712, 724, 727, 744, 747, 748

  The Concept of Irony, 686, 730, 732, 738;

  Concluding Unscientific Postscript, x, xi, xiii, xiv, xvii, 676, 685, 689, 706, 720, 728, 736, 737, 745

  The Corsair Affair, xvi–xvii, 748

  Early Polemical Writings, 713

  Either/Or, I-II, vii, xiii, xvi, 678–79, 680, 683, 684, 690, 691, 693, 695, 696, 700, 702, 706, 707, 714, 717, 721, 724, 730, 743, 746, 749; relation to Stages, vii–viii, x–xi, xv–xvii, 651–55, 658

  Fear and Trembling, vii, x, xi, xiv, xvi, 687, 698, 710, 716, 718, 720, 723, 732, 745

  “A First and Last Explanation,” xiv

  Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843), xiv

  Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844), xiv

  Johannes Climacus, 681, 727

  Letters and Documents, vii, viii, 675, 678, 685, 687, 699, 705, 716, 727

  On My Work as an Author, xiii

  “Patience in Expectancy,” 749

  The Point of View for My Work as an Author, xiii, 711

  Philosophical Fragments, xiv, xvi, 680, 684, 687, 698, 704, 711, 724, 748

  Prefaces, xiv, 704, 742, 744, 748

  Repetition, viii, x, xi, xiv, xvi, 402, 677, 679, 706, 714, 727, 731, 734, 747

  The Sickness unto Death, 732

  Stages on Life’s Way: and Book on Adler, 655–57; and Either/Or, vii–viii, x–xi, xv–xvii, 651–55, 658; estimates of, xvii–xviii; misprint in, 662–63; reviews of, xv–xvi; sales of, xvii; and Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, x–xi, xiv, xv; writing of, vii–ix, 507–08, 511–12, 515, 516, 566, 568–69, 624–25, 660–61, 693

  Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, xi, xiv, xv, 680

  Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843), vii, viii, xiv

  Three Upbuilding Discourses (1844), xiv, 748

  Two Ages, xv, 662, 717, 749

  Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843), vii, xiii

  Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844), xiv

  Without Authority, xiii, 724

  Works of Love, 721

  works, pseudonymous: list of, xiii–xiv

  works, signed: list of, xiii–xiv

  King, J. E., Cicero Tusculan Disputations, 704

  Kirketidende, 656, 749

  kiss, 42, 72, 74, 97, 560; and erotic love, 168, 541; first, 211; Judas kiss, 120; as ludicrous, 39, 40; and short sentences, 514, 565

  Kittredge, George Lyman, Complete Works of Shakespeare, 686

  Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post, 721

  Kjøbenhavnsposten, 746

  Klaiber, J. G., Plutarch’s Werke, 721

  Klatterup, 292

  Klim, Niels, 163

  Klopfer, Friedrich Gotthilf, 691

  Klopstock, 152, 618

  knight, 150; Aladdin as, 103; of reflection, 122; and seducer, 103; of unhappy love, 402

  knowledge: and religion, 479; wonder as beginning of, 348

  Knox, T. M., Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 695

  Knudsen, Lars, 712

  Kruse, Laurids, 678

  Kts (pseud. of Jakob Peter Mynster), 649–51

  Lactantius, Lucius Firmianus, Institutiones divinae, 688

  Lake Gurre, 527

  Lalage, 34–35

  Lamport, F. J., Five German Tragedies, 734

  Lange, Friedrich, Geschichten des Herodotos, 685

  language, 29–30, 264, 322–23, 401; changing, 590–91; Danish, 489–91; eloquent, 440; of immediacy, 427; invention of, 216; of love, 72, 293; of passion, 221; philosophical, 415; purpose of, 339, 601; religious, 468–69; rhetorical, 735; and subjunctive, 204–05; vs. thought, 415

  Laocoön, 91

  Latone(a), 635

  Lattimore, Richmond, 715

  Laura, 407, 605

  leap, x

  Lear, 264

  legal document, see analogy

  Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 502; Nouveaux Essais, 733

  leper(s), 232–34, 507, 575

  Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 386; “Doctor Faust,” 729; Emilia Galotti, 437, 633, 734; Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 734; Nathan der Weise, 733

  lesson, reading, 323, 598

  Leto, 737

  Leukippus, 710

  Levin, Israel Salomon, ix, 517; Album of nulevende danske Mænds og Qvinders Haandskrifter, 675

  Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 8, 146, 229; “Fragmente,” 710; “Litterarische Bemerkungen,” 701; “Ueber Physiognomie wider die Physiognomen,” 676; vermischte Schriften, 676

  life, 57; consistency of, 384; everyday, 317, 374; happiest and unhappiest, 262–63, 505, 583, 584; hidden, 17

  life-view, 342; in Quidam’s diary, xiii; religious, 162

  Lindberg, Jacob Christian, Maanedsskrift for Christendom og Historie, 685

  Lindner, Johann Gotthelf, 696, 706

  Linné, Carl, v., 401; Systema naturae, 731

  literatus (literati), 3, 516

  Living Word, 641–42

  Livy, 748; History, 740

  Loki, 197

  Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, 683, 704

  loquere ut (te) videam, 398

  Louis XVI (king of France), 397

  love [K(j)æ(e)rlighed], 124, 126, 140, 173, 226, 413, 421; esthetic and ethical in, 421; faith in, 410; first, 380, 546; and God, 173; God’s, 374–75; and marriage, 124, 126, 140; mother, 135–41; and the religious, 413–14; and religious abstraction, 173; unhappy, 228, 402, 404, 409. See also erotic love

  love affair(s), 13, 31–32, 71, 358–59; unhappy, 265, 404–10, 415, 417

  lovers, 34; and eternity, 60, 541; happy and unhappy, 71–73, 409, 557; as ludicrous, 32, 35, 40, 43, 541; and married couple, 82–83, 105, 127, 168–69, 560; and solitude, 18–19, 531–33

  Lowrie, Walter, Kierkegaard, xv

  Lund, Holger, Borgerdydsskolen: Kjøbenhavn, 705

  Luther, Martin, 641–42

  Lutheranism, Lutheran Church, 190, 230

  Lycaenium, 683

  Lycophron, 326–27, 722

  Macpherson, James, Poems of Ossian, 715

  Madvig, Johan Nikolai, 651

  Maecenas, 25

  Magdelone, 45, 543

  man (men): as absolute, 48–49; colored, 50; creates God, 229, 574; and erotic love, 43; and finitude, 62, 75; as half-person, 48; and ideality, 63, 65; as inferior, 75; married, 64, 74, 79, 90–93, 95, 105–06, 109, 112–17, 119, 122, 124, 129, 138–41, 152, 160, 168, 170, 177, 402; and reduplication, 65; and suffering, 306

  Manasse, 233, 575

  Manso, Johann Kasper Friedrich, Geschichte des Preussischen Staates vom Frieden zu Hubertusburg . . . , 718

  Marchant, E. C, Xenophon Memorabilia and Oeconomicus, 709


  Marheineke, Philipp, 681

  Marius, 703

  marriage(s), 12; absolute meaning in, 128; abstraction and, 114–15, 174–75; amusement in, 545; believer in, 90, 130; bonds of, 91, 112, 165; as Christian, 101; complexity of, 63–64; concreteness of, 114–15; dangers of, 127; deception and, 375; as duty, 100, 111–12, 117; and erotic love, 12, 97, 100, 102, 105–07, 110–11, 129, 180; and eternity, 101; expresses idea, 79, 105–06; faith in, 91; and falling in love, 95, 102, 109, 111, 115, 120, 147; and freedom, 102; frivolity of, 12; and God, 99–100; humor and, 128–30; and immediacy, 64, 101–02, 148; importance of, 88, 145; as jest or earnestness, 83, 149; and love, 126; and lovers, 105, 127; and memory, 94–95; and Middle Ages, 106, 170, 172; not highest life, 169; objections to, 92, 97, 102, 105–07, 119–20, 124, 142–43, 145–46, 169, 173, 561–62; and paganism, 100–101, 106; and poetry, 127–28, 155; queries about, 63, 355; rarity of true, 166, 173; and recollection, 94–95; recommended, 89–90, 96–97, 117, 183, 564; and reflection, 64; and the religious, 172, 178; and repentance, 261; and resolution, 95, 102, 107–12, 114–17, 122, 147–48, 156, 166–67; responsibilities of, 91, 117, 124; risks of, 116–17; security of, 128–29, 179; Socrates on, 156–57, 160; strangeness of, 63; as synthesis, 114–15, 117–18, 551; as τέλος, 101–02, 106; and temporality, 79–80, 117, 171; titles in, 93–94. See also man; Quidam; woman

  Martensen, Hans Lassen, 732; “Betragtningen over Idees af Faust,” 703

  Martha, 206

  Mary Magdalene, 353–54

  “matchless,” 378, 490, 641–42. See also Grundtvig

  Mathiesen, Lars, 514, 743

  Maxwell, Patrick, Nathan the Wise, 733

  Mayer, Elizabeth and Louise Bogan, Elective Affinities, 689

  McDonald, Mary Francis, Divine Institutes, 688

  mediation, 431; and contradiction, 366

  Medlidenhed, 460

  melancholy, see despair

  Melissa, 326

  Mellemværende, 216

  memory, xv; and absentmindedness, 120; and childhood, 10; criminal’s, 14; and experience, 9, 14; and forgetting, 9, 518, 677; and guilt, 520–21; and immediacy, 12; and immortality, 522; and marriage, 94–95; old person’s, 9; vs. recollection, 9–15, 21, 518–22, 524–25; and sin, 520–21

  Mephistopheles, 25

  merchant ship, see analogy

  Meta, 152, 618

  metal, imitation, see analogy

  metaphysics, the metaphysical, 476, 483, 486, 633

  Meyer, Henry, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, 689

  Middle Ages, 106, 127, 170, 172, 182, 198, 292, 372, 454, 501, 527, 613, 641

  Milky Way, 113

  Miller, A. V., Hegel’s Science of Logic, 727

  Miller, Frank Justus, Ovid Metamorphoses, 692

  Miølner, 677

  misunderstanding, 248, 416, 424; and the comic, 626; and poetry, 417, 419; and possibility of understanding, 416–17, 420–21

  modesty, 18, 77–78, 158, 167, 559

  Møller, Peder Ludvig: and Stages, xvi–xvii

  Møller, Poul Martin: En Danske Students Eventyr, 699; Efterladte Skrifter, 699; Om populærs Ideers Udvikling, xi

  moment, 11

  monastery, 65, 180, 182, 197–98

  morality, 123

  Moravian Brethren, 690

  Moser, J., L. Annaeus Seneca’s Werke, 680

  mother, 44; woman as, 133–40

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 28; Don Giovanni, 19, 27, 531, 533, 536, 653, 678, 680, 686, 701, 744, 745; Don Juan, 512, 678, 680, 686, 700, 744, 745; Marriage of Figaro, 698

  Müllern, Johann Samuel, Des C. Cornelius Tacitus sämmtliche Werke, 737

  Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus v., 148, 161, 428; Baron von Münchhausens vidunderlige Reiser, Feldtog og Hændelser, fortalte af ham selv, 701

  Mundt, Theodor, Charlotte Stieglitz, ein Denkmal, 721

  murder, 45, 49, 50

  Murphy, Arthur, Tacitus: The Historical Works, Germania and Agricola, 737

  Murray, A. T., Homer The Iliad, 702; Homer The Odyssey, 691

  Musäus, Johann Karl August: “Legenden von Rübezahl,” 698; “Liebestreue,” 683; “Rolands Knappen,” 707; Volksärchen der Deutschen, 683

  Muse(s), 25, 679; of poetry, 735

  mussel, see analogy

  Mynster, Jakob Peter (pseud. Kts), 748; Om Begrebet af den Christelige Dogmatik, 685

  mythology: Greek, 679, 697, 698, 705, 707, 723–24, 737, 744, 745; Norse, 677, 679, 700, 706, 744. See also gods/goddesses, individual names

  names: sacred, 658

  Napoleon, 41, 456, 637

  Nathan (the prophet), 251

  Nathanson, Mendel Levin, 650

  naturalist, 187–89

  Nebuchadnezzar, 360–63, 508, 608–10, 744

  negative, the, 61, 443–44, 474, 642

  Nichols, James, Edward Young The Complete Works Poetry and Prose, 747

  Nielsen, Anna Helene Dorothea, 131–32, 562–63

  Nielsen, Michael, 716

  Nitsch, Paul Friedrich A., neues mythologisches Wörterbuch, 691, 697, 698, 714, 724, 737

  Nook of Eight Paths, 16–17, 19, 503, 511, 525, 528–29

  normal-school graduate, 4–6, 482

  nota bene, 64

  nulla pallescere culpa, 475

  Ny Portefeuille, 648, 748

  Nyerup, Rasmus, 716

  Nystrørn, Eiler, Offentlige Forlystelser i Frederik Den Sjettes Tid, 738

  Nyt Aflenblad, xvi

  observation, 567

  Odin, 679

  Oehlenschläger, Adam Gottlob: Aladdin, 689, 692, 696, 702, 703, 746; Erik og Abel, 599, 744, 746; Hugo von Rheinberg, 703; Lange-lands-Reise, 744; “Morgen-Vandring,” 744; “Thors Reise til Jothunheim,” 678; Nordiske Digte, 678; Palnatoke, 747; Poetiske Skrifter, 689; Sovedrikken, 684

  Olsen, Regine, 713, 742

  Omphale, 180, 705

  one thing needful, 206, 231

  Ønskeqvist, 28, 80, 647

  Order of the Iron Cross, 718

  Orient, oriental, 56, 58

  orphanage, 677

  Ortlepp, Ernst, Shakespeare’s dramatische Werke, 686

  Osmaston, F.P.B., The Philosophy of Fine Art, 681

  Ossian: “Carric-thura,” 715; “Crothar,” 715

  ostracism, 704

  Othello, 49–50

  outcome, see result

  outer: and the inner, 375, 428, 441

  Overskou, Thomas, 745; and Anton

  Ludvig Arnesen, Capriciosa, eller Familien i Nyboder, 683

  Ovid: Metamorphoses, 692; Tristia, 678

  Oxenford, John, Autobiography of Goethe, 701

  pagan, paganism, 108, 422; and Christianity, 145, 162; and erotic love, 100, 122; and immediacy, 100; and marriage, 100–01, 106

  Pamphila, Commentaries, 722

  Pamphilius, 469–70

  Pandora, 691

  panis et circenses, 136

  paradox, 14

  Pascal, 460, 637

  pasha, 320

  passion, 81, 191; contradiction in, 302; and erotic love, 406; and falling in love, 163; and poetry, 405–06, 408–10; and politics, 410–11; and the religious, 646; and resolution, 163

  past, 13

  pathos, 49, 54; Goethe and, 152–53; of immediacy, 152

  pearl, see analogy

  pecus, 175

  pen, 183–84, 307, 565

  Per Degn, 340

  Percy, 291

  Periander of Ambracia, 323, 598–99

  Periander (the tyrant), 323–28, 566, 596–97, 598–99. See also proverbs

  Pericles, 318–19, 598

  Pernille, 401

  Perrin, Bernadotte, Plutarch’s Lives, 677

  Petrarch, 333, 407, 605, 625; Rimes, 723

  Phaedria, 204–05, 295

  Pharisee, 238

  Philine, 513

  physiology, 281

  Pierrot, 220, 437

  piety, 44–45

  Piloty, Ferdinand, 703

  plan(s): deliberation before, 475<
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  Plato, 33, 34, 45, 55, 348, 365, 707, 728; thanks the gods, 56, 62, 547, 688; Apology, 692, 739; Gorgias, 698, 732, 734; Phaedo, 418, 626, 720, 732; Philebus, 676; Republic, 736, 741; Symposium, xviii, 675, 681, 703, 727, 732, 743; Thaetetus, 724; Timaeus, 687

  Plutarch, 319, 598; Lives: “Caesar,” 728; “Cams Marius,” 688; “Marcellus,” 714, 740; “Marcus Cato,” 677; “Pericles,” 721; “Pyrrhus,” 726; “Solon,” 736; Lives, 677; Moralia: On the Fame of the Athenians, 693

  poetize: a relationship, 154–55

  poetry, the poetic, 58–59, 61, 625; comic and tragic in, 418–19; end of, 412; and erotic love, 413; and the esthetic, 441; and the ethical, 154–55, 441; and illness, 458–59, 461, 638; and immediacy, 105; inner and outer in, 441; and love, 413; and marriage, 127–28, 155; and married man, 105; and misunderstanding, 417, 419; Muses of, 735; and passion, 405–06, 408–10; and politics, 410–12; and the religious, 413, 639; and unhappy love, 404–08; and wife/mother, 141–42. See also esthetics

  poet(s), 41, 59, 74; and married man, 402–03; as undesirable, 442

  police, 82, 245–46, 552, 560, 593, 649, 657

  politics: and inspiration, 411; and passion, 410–11; and poetry, 410, 412

  Polos, 482

  portio mea et poculum, 566–67

  poscimur, 114–277

  Poseidon, 707

  positive, the, 61, 443–44

  posse, 439, 633

  possibility, 16, 25, 62, 76; and actuality, 205, 328–29, 439, 472

  Potiphar, 62

  prayer, 238–39, 347–48; and reflection, 348

  preface, 518, 568–69

  present, the, 13

  pride, 174

  primitivity, 125, 257–58, 379, 430

  principle: of excluded middle, 708

  probability, 467; and resolution, 110

  productivity, and recollection, 14

  Prometheus, 111, 565, 691

  prompter, see analogy

  propter hoc, 395

  prostitute, prostitution, 502, 510

  prototype: religious, 258. See also Forbilleder

  proverbs, 719–20; Admire nothing, 474, 739–40; Aut Caesar, aut nihil, 150; The deceived is wiser than one not deceived, 88; Diligence accomplishes everything, 324; Do not do what ought to be kept secret, 324; Ehestand is Wehestand, 115; Engaged people always become thin, 371; He is free who mocks his chains, 421; Homo sum, nil humani a me alienum puto, 365; Der Manner Schwüre sind der Frauen Verräther, 221; III gain breeds bad gain, 324–25; It is better to be feared than to be pitied, 324; More annihilated than repentant, 325, 599; The more lost, the less repentant, 502; Mundus vult decipi, 340; Never go back where you have once been, 118, 653; No man knows for sure how many children he has, 285, 588, 590; Nur die Gesundheit ist liebenswürdig, 458–61, 637; Omne animal post coitum triste, 542; Periissem nisiperiissem, 194; Quem deus perdere vult primum dementat, 267; Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts, 747; Tyrants . . . must have goodwill as a bodyguard, 325; Ultra posse nemo obligator, 394