Life is fleeting, limited and unrepeatable, so we should not watch life pass by, but should experience it, feel each moment in a limited life, and experience the most real content. Admittedly, life is a series of unique experiences strung together.
Kierkegaard believed that "the world is nothing", which means that the world does not exist, but that the world does not prescribe the meaning of its existence for anyone; He said, "Man is free," not that he can do whatever he wants, but that he is responsible for the independent choices he makes. He summarized people's attitudes toward the world into three types, calling them the three different stages of life's path.
First of all, there is the aesthetic stage, which refers to something that can directly cater to and satisfy the needs of the senses. For the aesthetic stage, the primary goal of life is to have fun in time and to satisfy the sensory needs to the greatest extent. Aesthetic people are obsessed with the pursuit of foreign objects, and do not know how to return to the truth, and are taken by the nose of foreign objects, and become victims of the external environment. One day, the dream of things passing away with the wind, people fall into endless troubles, perhaps, this feeling of trouble can make people wake up and start to pursue another life.
Second, there is the moral stage, and moral people should soberly realize that the standard of good and evil is far more important than the standard of bitterness. In other words, he no longer looks at life and chooses life from the level of bitterness but from the level of good and evil. A moral person fulfills his duties on time according to his conduct, and he has the virtues of integrity, restraint and kindness.
Finally, there is the religious phase. Entangled in frustration and disgust, people will move from the aesthetic stage to the moral stage, and for those in the moral stage, if they do not fulfill their obligations satisfactorily, they will tend to turn to religious belief.
In the case of these three ways of life, in Kierkegaard's view, the latter stage is always more advanced than the previous one, but they are not the three stages chosen sequentially in life. That is, people are free to choose one of these lifestyles, and they can also move from one way of life to another. When a person tends to be aesthetic, he will live a life of dog and horse sound; When a person pursues the moral realm, he becomes a truly virtuous person; When a person is addicted to religious life, he may become a devout Christian.
All in all, people's existence can be freely chosen by themselves. Regrettably, however, most people are reluctant to choose their own lives independently, as Kierkegaard said, "Most people summarize their lives like schoolchildren, they copy answers from books, they use to deceive teachers, but they never solve problems on their own." This is true, and most people are influenced by public opinion to choose and decide accordingly. The importance attached to public opinion, and the fact that even Christian doctrine has been reinterpreted in order to meet the needs of the masses, is particularly inconceivable to Kierkegor. Over time, the so-called public opinion became synonymous with truth, which he could not bear.
The employed cultivate intensively to make the fields harvested; Those who are hired are driven by profits.