Discussion Board Response · Answer someone else’s question (i.e., do not answer your own question). · Do not answer a question that has already been answered. · Your response should be (approximately) a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 350 words. · Do your best to respond to all aspects of the question asked. · Remember to support opinion with reasons why: facts, statistics, expert opinion, personal experience, etc. · If you refer to a particular image or idea or argument from another author, remember to cite your source. Objective: Please give a response to the following post Question 2, Yasmin Razak Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, was one to always be constantly curious and questioning upon the purpose of ones existence. To him, the idea of placing ones trust in God for the promise of salvation and eternal life in heaven was all too great of a theory to possibly be true. He was always, however, overwhelmed with thoughts of his own death. His struggle in faith eventually led him to create and philosophize in his own theory of existentialism, the belief of having a sufficient meaning and purpose to ones life. The two main ideas which laid within the core of Kierkegaard' s existentialism were both that of “subjectivity of truth” and the “leap of faith”. As Wolff suggests, "when Kierkegaard says Truth in Subjectivity, he is denying the ancient philosophical doctrine that the truth of an idea or a statement consists in its conformity to an independent object" (Wolff 308). By this, Kierkegaard means that the truth is a means of full resignation toward a persons beliefs; He did not believe in treating the promise of salvation as merely objective (like the Hegelian system would). By "leap of faith" Kierkegaard is referring to believing in God's promise even though you can not prove it to be true, not even to yourself, but to believe in it regardless. But in performing this leap of faith, we must absolutely...
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