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QuizMultiple Choice

Unit 7: Western Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

Question 8 • Philosophy: The Big Picture

Kierkegaard felt that it was important to be ethical, but that is not the highest level of his stages of existence. Why not?

Answer
A
One does not need to have faith to have ethics, so there is no “leap” there.
B
People are born inherently ethical, so they are just following human nature.
C
Ethics often depend on the situation, so it is never clear what the right thing to do is.
D
So many earlier philosophers had discussed ethics that Kierkegaard needed to do more.
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