{"id":724,"date":"2021-03-28T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=724"},"modified":"2021-03-28T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:46:05","slug":"soren-kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2021\/03\/28\/soren-kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard on Losing oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The greatest hazard of all, losing one\u2019s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss \u2013 an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. \u2013 is sure to be noticed.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted from: <a href=\"https:\/\/palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/09\/soren-kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself\/\">https:\/\/palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/09\/soren-kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kierkegaard sees busyness as amounting to a waste of time, quite literally. The nihilistic \u2018A\u2019 finds the busy people comical because busyness does not achieve anything worthwhile over the course of one\u2019s life; yet these \u201cbusy bustlers\u201d devote their lives to busyness. Hence busyness is considered by \u2018A\u2019 as a waste of one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kierkegaard repeats this sentiment, as himself, in his&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/1339.html\">Letters<\/a><\/em>(1848), where he decries the high price his age places on productivity and busyness, that it devalues those who cannot keep up with the pace of busyness, and that ultimately, the \u201cbusy, busier, busiest haste of busy-ness\u201d that people aspire to, is merely being \u201cbusy with wasting life and losing oneself.\u201d Busyness causes us to waste our lives and lose our very selves in our busyness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-centre-for-engaged-philosophy\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/engagedphilosophy.org\/2019\/05\/09\/kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself-in-busyness\/\">Blog-Post: Kierkegaard on Losing Oneself in&nbsp;Busyness<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest hazard of all, losing one\u2019s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss \u2013 an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. \u2013 is sure to be noticed.\u201d&nbsp; Posted from: https:\/\/palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/09\/soren-kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself\/ Kierkegaard sees busyness as&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2021\/03\/28\/soren-kierkegaard-on-losing-oneself\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard on Losing oneself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}