“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― from TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Virginia Woolf, 1927
One
of the most knowledgable and also influential management theorists, the
famouis, late Peter Drucker, had a few sentences as follows, which
revealed his true diciplines: a multiple-diciplined philosopher:
For Kiekegaard, human existence is possible only in tension--in tension
between man's simultaneous life as an individual in the spirit and as a
citizen in society.
Søren Kierkegaard's 200th birthday has been virtually marked with a Google doodle today.
The
Danish philosopher - who died in November 1855 aged 42 - is widely
considered as the first existentialist philosopher, with many of his
works focusing on how life should be lived as a "single individual".
Consequently, his work often highlighted the importance of personal choice and commitment and of 'truth as subjectivity'.
The Google doodle depicts six characters - five of whom are holding outsized quills - spelling out the search engine giant's name.
Two figures each have an arm outstretched, bent at the elbow, and have
their heads held up as if contemplating something other than their task.
One of the characters also seems to be addressing the sixth figure, standing slightly away, who does not hold a quill.
Kierkegaard, who was raised as a Lutheran, gained
considerable fame for his work in the 1930s and has had an enduring
influence on subsequent generations of philosophers and writers.
Just
some of the artists was have been inspired and influenced by
Kierkegaard's notions of angst, despair and the importance of the
individual include Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre,
W.H Auden, Don DeLillo, Franz Kafka, J.D Salinger and Malcolm
Muggeridge.
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