키에르케고르의 불안개념에 대한 분석 = A Study on the Concept of Anxiety in Kierkegaard's Philosophy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A Study on the Concept of Anxiety in Kierkegaard's Philosophy*

Yu, Kwang Cheol

Department of philosophy
Graduate School, Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Korea
(Supervised by Professor Kim, Jae Chul)


(Abstract)

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard(1813-1855), an existentialist, thoroughly analyzed the human beings that have lead comfortable lives as a part of common system of speculative philosophy. He described the human being as an 'existence of anxiety' from an early age. He observed that people in the global village came to have a deep distrust of reason and severe doubt of advancement of history that have placed on the absolute position during World Wars Ⅰand Ⅱ. In addition, they keenly realized the inability of human beings and crisis of existence. Today, modern people remain troubled by anxiety, war, racial conflict, various terrors, environmental pollution, and cloning.
However, according to Kierkegaard, these external anxiety were not true ones but only fears. The fear has its object as emotional state, but the true anxiety, Kierkegaard said, was the result of the contradiction in the existence of human beings. It was very difficult to grasp its substance and overcome it. As a result, few people research these problems of anxiety which are profound obscurities. But, under these conditions, in the absence of 'research on anxiety', Kierkegaard tried to approach these problems in a decisive manner.
Kierkegaard was a Christian in Lutheran Church, the established Christianity in Denmark as well as a philosopher and theologian. His interest was to establish the true Christianity and be a true Christian at all times. Kierkegaard, who has wrestled with the consciousness of these problems, saw through the concept 'anxiety', as a depth element in the human being's existence. And then, he started a full-scale research. The result of his research was The Concept of Anxiety. He did not look for the problems of anxiety in other places, but he developed his unique logic, connecting the concept of traditional 'original sin' based on the lapsed mythology about Adam and Eve shown on Genesis. Kierkegaard tried to interpret the anxiety of criticized the traditional interpretation of original sin that was recognized as a vague and abstract mythology. First of all, he considered the original sin as a sense of guilt and explained it as psychological and anthropological method, not mythological method. His trial was to analyze the human being's common guilt rather than the interpretation of sin by Adam and Eve. In addition, he considered the mythology of Adam and Eve's Fall in the Bible as a matter which concerns every human. That is to say, transference from the state of innocence through the actual commitment of a sin rather than through the genetic guilt from Adam. As a result, he interpreted that every human being would never be free of anxiety.
What is the philosophical or religious meaning of 'anxiety' that Kierkegaard highlighted as a characteristic of human existence? According to him, every human came to feel anxiety if they were normal human beings because they were beings with mental reason. Paradoxically speaking, the deeper the anxiety, the greater the human being. The reason was why the anxiety made the hunan beings foothold that could make them miss the eternity and a motive of vital importance. From a practical point of view, Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety makes it possible for human beings to find the lost egos, and become a means of true recovery for humanity. Ultimately, this anxiety proves to be a way to reach for eternity. In other words, the anxiety became a motive that made the human beings confirm their religious faith for Jesus Christ, an Absolute Paradox. And the belief in God became a shortcut that reached to eternity. Consequently, Kierkegaard's theory of anxiety is the essence of the theory of religious eternity.

Themes : human being, original sin, anxiety, existence, Kierkegaard

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목 차
• Ⅰ. 서 론 1
• Ⅱ. 키에르케고르의 실존주의에 대한 예비고찰 7
• 1. 실존주의 단초 7
• 2. 유신론적 실존주의 13
• 3. 실존주의에 있어서 불안의 문제 18
• Ⅲ. 불안과 죄 24
• 1. 불안과 실존적 죄성:전통적 원죄비판 30
• 2. 자유의 현기증으로서의 불안:타죄이전의 불안 33
• Ⅳ. 불안의 전개 44
• 1. 불안과 비약 45
• 2. 불안의 변증법 46
• 3. 불안과 성 48
• Ⅴ. 가능성의 불안 52
• Ⅵ. 결 론 54
• 참고문헌 58
• 영문초록 61