Kierkegaard on Objective and Subjective Individuals 1847 1848
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 11/04/2019

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes-but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. They are objective in the wrong place, because they allow themselves everything, and subjective in the wrong place, because when the slightest thing happens to them they promptly become subjectively affected, sometimes even by a dog, which is the most bestial admission a person can make. The one and only consolation and absolute distraction in all one’s suffering is to look to God, to think of him, submit everything to him, consider that it comes from him, in that he allows it. In this way one becomes, in the right sense, objective and, in the right sense, subjective – objective toward others and subjective toward oneself.  Soren Kierkegaard Journals IV 45-42 1847 IV 4545 1848