The Concept Of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologicall... Page

: For Kierkegaard, "more anxiety = more spirit". Animals do not experience this existential dread because they lack the self-conscious freedom that makes humans "spirit". A Comparative Theology of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard

: While anxiety itself is not sin, it is the state that precedes the "qualitative leap" into sin. In his analysis of the Garden of Eden, Kierkegaard suggests Adam felt anxiety when faced with the choice to obey or disobey God. The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologicall...

Kierkegaard famously defines anxiety as the . He illustrates this with the image of a person standing on the edge of a cliff: they feel a natural fear of falling, but also a terrifying, dizzying impulse to throw themselves off. This dizziness arises because the person realizes they have the absolute freedom to choose their next action. : For Kierkegaard, "more anxiety = more spirit"

: Anxiety is the awareness of what could happen; it is the "possibility of possibility". In his analysis of the Garden of Eden,