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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Historical Introduction
The Sickness unto Death
Preface
Introduction
Part One The Sickness Unto Death is Despair
A Despair is the Sickness unto Death
A. Despair is A Sickness of the Spirit, of the Self, and Accordingly can Take Three Forms: in Despair Not to be Conscious of Having a Self; in Despair Not to Will to be Oneself; in Despair to Will to be Oneself
B. The Possibility and the Actuality of Despair
C. Despair Is “The Sickness Unto Death”
B The Universality of This Sickness (Despair)
C The Forms of This Sickness (Despair)
A. Despair Considered Without Regard to its Being Conscious or Not, Consequently only with Regard to the Constituents of the Synthesis
a. Despair as Defined by Finitude/Infinitude
α. Infinitude’s Despair Is to Lack Finitude
β. Finitude’s Despair Is to Lack Infinitude
b. Despair as Defined by Possibility/Necessity
α. Possibility’s Despair Is to Lack Necessity
β. Necessity’s Despair Is to Lack Possibility
B. Despair as Defined by Consciousness
a. The Despair That Is Ignorant of Being Despair, or the Despairing Ignorance of Having a Self and an Eternal Self
b. The Despair That Is Conscious of Being Despair and Therefore Is Conscious of Having a Self in Which There Is Something Eternal and Then either in Despair Does Not Will to Be Itself or in Despair Wills to Be Itself
α. In Despair Not to Will to Be Oneself: Despair in Weakness
(1) Despair Over The Earthly or Over Something Earthly
(2) Despair of the Eternal or Over Oneself
β. In Despair to Will to Be Oneself: Defiance
Part Two Despair Is Sin
A Despair Is Sin
Chapter 1. The Gradations in The Consciousness of the Self (The Qualification: “Before God”)
Appendix. That the Definition of Sin Includes the Possibility of Offense, a General Observation about Offense
Chapter 2. The Socratic Definition of Sin
Chapter 3. Sin Is Not A Negation But A Position
Appendix to A But then in a Certain Sense Does Not Sin Become a Great Rarity? (The Moral)
B The Continuance of Sin
A. The Sin of Despairing Over One’s Sin
B. The Sin of Despairing of The Forgiveness of Sins (Offense)
C. The Sin of Dismissing Christianity modo ponendo [Positively], of Declaring it to be Untruth
Supplement
Key to References
Original Title Page
Selected Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Sickness unto Death
Editorial Appendix
Acknowledgments
Collation of The Sickness unto Death in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Index
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