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