Philosophy as spirituality or singularization of man in Kierkegaard: The self (Selv) as spirit (Aand)

Abstract

The objective of this work is to present the perspective of Kierkegaard's philosophy as spirituality or singularization of men. The whole philosophical project, built through the method of indirect communication, i.e, using the medium of pseudonymous works and signed works, are dialectically designed to make man aware, or to lead him to the becoming of what it is. This means that Kierkegaard's philosophical production addresses the man who lives in the non-truth, inauthenticity, spiritlessness so that, through pseudonyms, he can mobilize him to put himself in the existential movement of his spirituality. Spirituality, here, means appropriation of the spirit, i.e, to live existence from the perspective or opening of the spirit as a synthesis of the constituent elements of man's ontology. The so-called existential stages only recover meaning as and as a philosophical foundation of the self (Selv), i.e, of the spiritual becoming of man. This singularization of man, removing him from untruth or spiritlessness (Selv as Individ), makes him a Singular Individual (Selv as den Enkelte).