Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher and author was an existentialist. He believed that the main purpose of philosophy is to increase happiness through analyzing and understanding ourselves.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Much of his work deals with the concept of despair. The lowest level of which he believed was to have the wrong idea of who we actually are. Who our “Self” actual is. Being ignorant of who we actually are allows us to Continue Reading…
