Notes about Kierkegaard: “dread and freedom”

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Introduction

• Except dread and freedom, Kierkegaard is concern about how innocence became guilty and sin.
• but it is a leap to explain it.
• thus there is two different approach to solve this problem.

I

• what is dread?
• it have three explanation:
• 1, “dread is the reality of freedom as possibility.” (p.101)
• 2, “dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.” (p.102)
• 3, “dread is the dizziness(失去平衡的) of freedom.” (p.105)

II

• “the possibility of freedom is not consist in being able to choose the good or the evil.” (p.104)
• “possibility means I can.” (p.104)
• this introduce the idea of choice. Either / Or. 

III

• why dread is sympathetic antipathy and antipathetic sympathy? Why又愛又恨? Why so dialectical?
• the object of dread is nothing. Thus he said “language in this instance also is pregnant: it speaks of being in dread of nothing.” (p.102) 
• Nothing show the freedom and responsibility.
• nothing is possible, thus can said to be freedom.
• freedom and responsibility can not be distinct.
• The concept of Responsibility is come from “that individual”. When making decision, the other possibility is loss. 
• thus man love it due to dread show the possibility—freedom, and hate it due to dread bring back responsibility. 

IV

• because nothing is one of characteristic of the state of innocence.
• the state of innocence which is peace and repose, spirit is dreaming, and the most importance is “innocence is ignorance”.
• thus man is freedom, need to make decision, but he didn’t know how to make because he is ignorance. 
• thus “he cannot flee from dread, for he love it; :really he does not love it, for he flees from it”.
• as “that individual” said, he is one of crowd and became guilty.