LA NOZIONE DI ALTRO NELLA TEORIA KIERKEGAARDIANA DEGLI STADI ESISTENZIALI

From the notion of self as a relation's relating itself to itself, I discuss the concept of the other in relation to the self in each of the Kierkegaardian life stages: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. First of all, I describe the notion of self in Kierkegaardian philosophy as it appears in Sickness unto Death (Kierkegaard, 2013a), and the problem of the human being as a conscience in the world. After that, I describe the esthetic notion of the other, which is no more than a casual opportunity of the self for enjoying itself in life. In the ethical stage, the other is described as...