Kierkegaard strongly believed that there are three main stages in the way of life: the Aesthetical, the ethical, and the religious. The aesthetical is about one’s image and the pleasures one seeks. The ethical stage is about accepting moral standards, putting duty before pleasure. The last is the religious stage, where faith plays the main role and it is what leads our choices.
Most of us can be placed in the aesthetical stage, because the ethical and religious stages are merely paradigms to live by. We try to imitate or become knights of faith and knights of infinite resignation; however, not all of us are willing to take the necessary leap, or sacrifice our pleasures to jump from stage.
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