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This 5 page paper compares Kierkegaard’s and Sartre’s thinking using their works “The Present Age” and “Existentialism and Human Emotions,” respectively. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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with the way in which society operates or rather, does not operate, for it is his opinion that in the present age (he wrote in 1846) people could only briefly
be roused to action and then lapsed into idleness again. His concern, then, is to explain this mechanism, which he does in terms of the public. The public, he argues,
does not really exist but is an idea, and furthermore, its one that would "never have occurred to people in ancient times," for the people themselves "took steps in any
active situation, and bore responsibility for each individual among them"; that individual in turn had to "present himself and submit his decision immediately to approval or disapproval" (Kierkegaard, 1846).
The public, he argues, is in actuality a creation of the Media, which is defined here as the press; it comes into being when a "clever society makes concrete reality
into nothing" (Kierkegaard, 1846). This "public" is "filled with unreal individuals, who are never united nor can they ever unite simultaneously in a single situation or organization, yet still stick
together as a whole" (Kierkegaard, 1846). Kierkegaard seems to regard the public as more than the sum of its parts: he says it is a body, "more numerous than the
people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kierkegaard, 1846). Despite this, it grows larger and larger until it encompasses everything (Kierkegaard,
1846). This is difficult. Kierkegaard is insisting that the public doesnt exist, and yet what else are we to call people when they are not acting in private? He seems
to draw the distinction not between public and private, but between real and unreal. He gives a long list of what the public is not: its not a people, a
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