Abstract

What motivates human life as a whole? What is the measure of becoming oneself? The answer of Kierkegaard on these fundamental questions is the topic of this article. His account of the human existential pathos as 'interest' has been reconstructed in parts 1 and 2 and contrasted with an objective-systematic understanding of human life and with an esthetical way of life . In part 5 I try to show how Kierkegaard's understanding of this pathos is inherently linked with his unique indirect method of philosophical thinking