Søren Kierkegaard & Friedrich Nietzsche - 19th and 20th Century Philosophy
Channel: Matthew J. Brown
Date: 09/02/2021

This week's video focuses on the proto-existentialist philosophers, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. I discuss the shared 19th Century, anti-Hegelian background of these two philosophers, discuss their similarities and differences. I give a brief overview of Kierkegaard's notions of the three stages of life, the leap of faith, and truth as subjectivity; as well as Nietzsche's ideas about Christianity as slave morality, the death of god, and the übermensch.