Stages on Life’s Way

by Søren Kierkegaard

  adulthood, definition of, 717

  Ægtemand, 93, 745

  Ægtepær, 745

  Aeneas, 694, 696, 697, 704

  Aesop, 418, 626; fables: “Boasting Traveller,” 695; “Dog and the Shadow,” 697

  Afham, William, see KIERKEGAARD, pseudonyms

  age, aging, 287; the current, 465–66, 492–93; and memory, 9, 518–21; and recollection, 10, 12, 520–21; and women, 133–34

  Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius: De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarum & artium liber . . . , 699; De nobilitate et praecelientia foeminei sexus, eiusdemque; supra virilem eminentia libellus, 126, 511, 557, 745; de sacramento matrimonio libellus, 562, 745

  Aladdin, vii, 78; and Gulnare, 103; wedding of, 103–04, 164; wish of, 103–04

  Albertus, 525–28

  Alcibiades, 687

  Alexander, Henry, Four Plays by Holberg, 686

  Alexander VI, 701

  Al-Rashid, Harun, 649

  Amager, 675, 716

  analogy(ies), 466; accounting, 591–92; bargain, 176; bear and fly, 358; beer, 308, 380; books, 364; body parts, 480; Chinese satin, 401–02; christening, 99; clock, 335, 347, 600–01; compass, 299; consonants and vowels, 97; corns, 128–29; daisy, 138; deaf man, 420, 627; dove, 12; firewood, 646–27; fox traps, 38; horse, 29, 289, 485; gambler, 477–78; glasses, 10; grammar, 116, 297; imitation metal, 60; jeweler, 215; legal document, 267; merchant ship, 329; mussel, 388; pearl, 165; printing error, 397; prompter, 289; puppet, 40; scientific investigation, 281; semaphor, 289; shower, 42; turtle meat, 63, 551; umbrella, 640; weed, 397; whale, 235–36; whipping boy, 271–72; wild bird, xii, 363

  Anderson, Hans Christian: “Suppe paa en Pølsepind,” 707; Nye Eventyr og Historier, 707

  anger, 135

  anonymous: China, historisch, romantisch, malerisch, 658; Dansk Ordbog udgiven under Videnskabemes Selskabs Bestyrelse, 741; Kongelige Theaters Repertoire, 683, 685, 721, 724, 745; Udtog af en ung Piges Dagbog og Brevskaber. En Novelle, 746

  Antaeus, 707

  anticipation, 27

  Antigone, 507

  anxiety; in happiness, 27, 103

  ape, 8

  Apollo, 682

  apostle, 8, 341, 345

  appearance(s), 639

  apprentice: married man as, 160

  appropriation, 96, 258

  Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 25, 717, 748

  Archimedes, 261, 479, 714, 740

  aridity, 501

  Aristippus, On the Luxury of the Ancients, 722

  Aristophanes, 50, 410; story of dividing man, 35, 43; Clouds, 686, 710; Knights, 732

  Aristotle, 54, 55, 220, 224, 348, 411, 639; on catharsis, 460; on poet vs. historian, 437; on tragedy, 738; Eudemian Ethics, 684; Metaphysics, 708, 724; Poetics, 687, 734, 738; Politics, 687; Prior Analytics, 709

  Arndt, Johan: Fire Bøger om den sande Christendom, 710; Sämtliche geistreiche Bücher vom wahren Christenthum, 710

  Arnim, Ludwig Achim v., and Clemens Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 746

  Arv, 90

  Ast, Friedrich, Platonis quae exstant opera, 675

  astrology, 444

  astronomy, 172, 523

  asylum, insane: Swift in, 199, 512

  Augustine, St., 147, 338; De bono viduitatis, 701; De doctrina Christiana, 601, 724, 746; Opera, 701

  autobiography: and writing, xii–xv

  autopathy: and sympathy, 112

  Axel, 407, 625

  Babbitt, Frank Cole, et al., Plutarch’s Moralia, 693

  Babylon, 360, 362–63

  bachelor(s), 106, 109, 113, 124; and ethical categories, 145

  Baden, Jacob: Caji Suetonii Tranquili Tolv første Romerske Keiseres Levnetsbeskrivelse, 678; Cajus Cornelius Tacitus, 737

  Bæren, 578

  Baggesen, Jens, 637; Danfana, 728; danske Værker, 718; “Min Geinganger-Spøg, eller den søde Kniv,” 718, 742; “Over Baldrian,” 748; “Till Danfanas Døttre,” 728

  banquet(s), 15, 21, 26–81, 511, 534–39; desired sensations at, 25; planning, 22–25; Victor Eremita on, 24–25

  Barea, Ilsa, Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, 725

  Barfod, Hans Peter, and Hermann Gottsched, Af Søren Kierkegaards Efterladte Papirer, 713

  bargain, see analogy

  Barnes, Jonathan, Complete Works of Aristotle, 684

  Basore, John W. Seneca Moral Essays, 680

  Bathsheba, 645

  bear and fly, see analogy

  Beatrice (Shakespeare’s), 267, 585, 715

  beauty, the beautiful, 34, 46, 221; and reflection, 141

  Bedreddin, 159

  beer, see analogy

  Behrend, 640

  being: annullment of, 86; pure, 86

  Bekker, Immanuel, Aristoteles, 684

  Benedick, 585, 715

  benedict, 63, 64, 552–53

  Bennett, C. E., Horace The Odes and Epodes, 681

  Bennett, Jonathan, 733

  Berlingske Tidende, xvi, 646–51, 748

  Beslutning, 110

  Beundring, 724

  Bewick, Thomas, Fables of Aesop, 695

  Bias, 729

  BIBLE, 230, 293

  Apocrypha

  Sirach 10:10, 675

  New Testament, 190, 566

  Acts 2:4, 683; 3:6, 707; 10:34, 737; 13:2, 724

  I Corinthians 2:9, 689; 4:10, 712; 4:13, 705; 8:4, 727; 13:9, 703; 13:12, 703; 14:32–35, 694; 15:19, 705; 15:32, 700

  II Corinthians 3:6, 712, 730; 3:18, 694; 4:16, 730

  Ephesians 4:30, 704

  Galations 1:16, 710, 721; 4:4, 698

  Hebrews 3:7, 714; 3:13, 714; 3:15, 714; 4:7, 714; 4:12, 713; 10:30, 737; 12:29, 714; 13:14, 703

  James 2:10, 718, 731; 2:15–16, 697

  John 1:27, 717; 2:14, 699; 3:8, 678; 4:24, 696; 5:24, 697; 6:63, 730; 6:68, 725; 15:16, 725; 16:4, 710; 16:12, 710

  Luke 2:37–38, 749; 3:16, 717; 4:4, 700; 7:37–50, 725; 10:41–42, 707; 14:19–20, 679; 15:13, 690; 16:13, 702; 16:22, 711; 17:10, 697; 17:12, 710, 711; 17:37, 731; 18:28–29, 703; 21:1–4, 720; 22:47, 698

  Mark 1:3, 724; 2:17, 738; 4:30–32, 683; 10:9, 701; 10:28–29, 703; 10:29, 685; 12:17, 699; 12:42, 720; 14:3, 710; 14:45, 698

  Matthew 5:28, 685; 6:2, 697, 709; 6:5, 697, 709; 6:16, 709; 6:24, 702, 712; 8:22, 718; 10:29, 711; 8:11, 711; 11:5, 738; 11:11, 741; 11:12, 737; 12:30, 742; 13:25, 701; 13:31–32, 683; 13:44–46, 703; 22:11–13, 697; 23:23, 711; 25:1, 713; 25:1–13, 700; 25:35–46, 697; 26:6, 710; 26:49, 698; 26:53, 732

  II Peter 3:8, 711

  Philippians 1:6, 702; 4:7, 710

  Revelation 3:15, 704; 14:13, 717; 21:1, 725

  Romans 1:1, 724; 8:2, 730; 8:22, 730; 8:25, 749; 12:11, 724; 12:19, 737

  I Thessalonians 5:16, 739

  I Timothy 2:14, 685

  Titus 2:14, 685

  Old Testament, 230, 477

  II Chronicles 9:1–11, 712

  Daniel 2:4, 726; 3:4–30, 726; 3:15, 695; 3:18, 695; 4:32–33, 726

  Deuteronomy 32:35, 737

  Ecclesiastes 1:7, 704; 1:8, 679; 1:9, 724; 1:14, 717; 1:18, 699; 3:7, 685; 4:6–8, 704; 4:16, 717; 11:9, 717

  Exodus 12:12, 702; 16:3, 710; 19:12–13, 678; 20:5, 698, 740; 25:20–21, 700

  Genesis, 97; 1:26, 710; 2:21–24, 692; 2:18, 710; 2:24, 685, 703, 705; 3:16, 714; 3:18, 725; 3:24, 747; 8:8–12, 720; 9:20–23, 712; 25:22, 707; 33:4, 696; 38:23, 703; 39:7–20, 689; 41:1–4, 741; 41:17–21, 741; 41:26–31, 741; 43:34, 680; 45:4–5, 720; 50:20, 720

  Isaiah 6:5, 699; 22:13, 700; 26:18, 707; 40:6–8, 710

  Job 29:18, 700; 38:1–2, 720

  Judges 13:22, 699; 14:14, 676

  I Kings 1:8–46, 712; 3:15, 712; 3:16–28, 712

  II Kings 18:9, 733; 18:13, 733

  Leviticus 21:10, 729

  Micah 6:7–8, 746

  Numbers 17:1–8, 747; 21:8, 697

  Proverbs 15:23, 679, 700; 18:22, 702; 25:11, 700

  Psalm 1:3, 697; 6:5, 707; 16:5, 746; 35:20, 723; 90:4, 711; 90:5–6, 710; 90:10, 704, 711; 128:3, 69
7; 130:1, 705

  I Samuel 15:22, 703, 714, 746

  II Samuel 11, 737

  Song of Solomon 1:8, 702; 5:9, 702

  See also Gospel, Scripture

  Biehl, Charlotte Dorothea, sindrige Don Quixote af Mancha, 731

  bitte, 239, 359

  Bleiler, Ellen H., 678

  blessedness, 697

  Blicher, Steen Steensen: Ossians Digte, 715; Trækfuglen, 742

  Bloch, Jens, Xenophons Sokratiske Merkværdigheder, 709

  body parts, see analogy

  Boesen, Emil, vii–viii, 691, 713

  Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae Severini Boethii libri V, 735

  Bogan, Louise, see Mayer

  Bolingbroke, Viscount (Henry St. John), 547, 745

  Bonaventura, 731

  Bonfils, Carl Joseph Julius, 190, 567

  bookbinder(s), 3, 6

  bookkeeper, mentally disordered, 278–88, 503, 511, 589, 590; insanity of, 279, 587–88; and ship captain, 287–88, 588

  book(s), see analogy

  Borgerdyds School, 716

  Börne, Karl Ludwig, 404, 452–53, 461, 479–81, 628, 644; Aus meinem Tagebuche, 741; “Das Bild,” 737–38; Gesammelte Schriften, 731; “Die Leichtthurm,” 731; “Hamlet, von Shakespeare,” 737

  Bornemann, F. A., Xenophontis memorabilia, 709

  Boye, Caspar Johannes, 698

  Brage, 679

  Brage-Snak, 24, 535, 679. See also Grundtvig

  Brandes, Georg: on Stages, xvii–xviii; Søren Kierkegaard, xviii

  Brandt, Frithiof, and Else Rammel, Søren Kierkegaard og Pengene, xvii

  breach: and bride, 79, 664

  break, 178–79, 349, 559, 572

  Breitenfels, Johann von, “Vorrede,” Satyrische und ernsthafte Schriften von Dr. Jonathan Swift, 743

  Bremenfeldt, Hermann v., 465–66

  Brentano, Clemens, 746

  bride: and breach, 79, 664

  Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist, 678

  Brorson, Hans Adolph, “Jeg gaaer i Fare, hvor jeg gaaer,” 739

  Brückbrau, F. W., Sämmtliche italienische Gedichte, 723

  Bruun, Niels Thoroup, Figaros Givtermaal, 698

  bull: hide of, 697

  Busybody, 466

  Caén, Anton, Folkevisebog, 687, 693

  Caesar, Augustus, 678

  Caesar Borgia, 601

  Caesar, Julius, 384, 438, 703

  café(s), 22, 203–04, 287, 391–92; Mini’s, 504

  Cairns, Huntington, 698

  callous(es), 10

  Campbell, Oscar James, and Frederic Schenck, Comedies by Holberg, 684

  captain, 287–88, 504–05, 588

  Carstensen, Georg Johan Bernhard, 748

  Carthage, 677, 697

  Cassandra, 220

  catharsis, 460–62

  Catholicism, Catholic Church, 454

  Cato, Marcus, the Younger, 11, 384

  celibacy, 147

  Centaur, 714

  certainty, 34, 183

  Cervantes, 402; Don Quixote, 731

  Chamisso, Adelbert v., Peter Schlemihl’s wundersame Geschichte, 725

  charity: and inwardness, 646

  childhood: and memory, 10, 519; and recollection, 519; and religion, 152, 630

  children: and the comic, 41; as consequence of erotic love, 43–45, 123

  Chinese satin, see analogy

  choosing oneself, 121

  Christ: name of, 658

  christening, see analogy

  Christianity: and Grundtvig, 514–15; Hume on, 696; and paganism, 145, 162; and suffering, 460

  Christiansfelder, 72

  Christianshavn, 276–77, 285–86, 288, 587, 589, 675, 716; Børnehus Orphanage Bridge, 278; Knippelsbro, 508, 675; Langebro, 276, 288, 675; Overgaden over Vandet, 278, 287

  Christmas goat, 281

  Christology, 684

  Chrysippus, 733

  Church, 641

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 44, 397, 748; Consolation, 688; De natura deorum, 747; De oratore, 677; Oratio, 694; Orator, 728; “Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino,” 694; Tuscalanarum disputationum, 704

  Claudius, Matthias, 416; “Die Audienz,” 732; ASMUS omnia sua SECUM portans . . ., 732

  Cleobulus, 703

  Climacus, Johannes, see KIERKEGAARD, pseudonyms

  clock, see analogy

  comedy, the comic, ix; and children, 41; and contradiction, 33, 40–43, 438; erotic love as, 34, 36, 37–39, 42–43, 541, 626; and history, 437–38; and the metaphysical, 633; misunderstanding and, 416–17, 626; and the religious, 259; and suffering, 245–46; and the tragic, 36, 38, 50, 145, 366–67, 412, 420, 633, 693, 727. See also Frater Tactiturnus

  communication, xii, 656–57

  compass, see analogy

  compassion, 233–34, 646; and fear, 460–65. See also Medlidenhed

  concession, 71–73, 553

  conclusion(s), 709

  concreteness, concretion: and abstraction, 114–15, 658–69; of marriage, 114–15; and the religious, 172

  connoisseur, 125, 129, 132, 133, 152, 159, 163

  consequence(s), 42–44, 49, 64, 66; of erotic love, 103, 123

  consonants and vowels, see analogy

  contradiction, 178, 272, 366, 708; and the comic, 33, 40–41, 438, 472; in erotic love, 35, 38, 43–45, 558; in the religious, 172–73, 251; and Scribe, 409; and solitude, 16; in women’s lives, 56, 62

  contrast, 13, 511, 532

  conversation, 29

  Cooper, W. V., Consolation of Philosophy, 735

  Copenhagen, 487

  buildings: Frue Kirke, 503; Nicolai Tower, 600; Rosenberg Castle, 461, 723; Trinitatis Church, 300

  environs of, 26; Deer Park, 61; Dyrehavsbakken, 514; Fredriksberg Gardens, 743; Kongenshave, 335; Ordrup, 536, 680; Øresund, 304; Tivoli, 708

  streets and avenues: Esplanade, 195; Hauser Square, 244, 249, 250, 254, 299, 425, 578; Kronprindsesse, 208; Kultorvet, 508; Østergade, 137, 224, 289; Strøget, 700; Suhms, 249; Tornebuske, 249

  Cordelia (in Either/Or), 73, 655

  Cordelia (Shakespeare’s), 264

  corns, see analogy

  corruption, 563–64

  Corsaren, xvi

  Crassus, 677

  Cratia, 324

  creeds, 684

  critics, 147; theater, 131–32

  cuckold, 50

  Curtius, Michael Conrad, Aristoteles Dichtkunst, 734

  Cyclopes, 696

  Cypselus, 323, 326–27, 722

  Dagmar (queen of Denmark), 741

  daisy, see analogy

  Dalai Lama, 230

  Damocles: sword of, 179, 257, 572

  Daniel, 360

  Darius, 295, 718–19

  David: and Solomon, 251–52, 508, 580; and Uriah, 645

  deaf man, see analogy

  death, 3, 300, 331; unhappy love as, 31, 53–56, 261, 321

  deceit, deception, 46, 50–51, 75–76, 78, 602; tragedy as, 119. See also Quidam

  Deferrari, Roy J., Fathers of the Church, 688

  Deianeira, 705

  deliberation, 475–76; and dialectic, 476; and repentance, 476; and resolution, 102; and thought, 102

  demand of the times, 11, 340, 493, 625. See also requirement

  Democritus, 710

  demonic, the, 148–49; and the religious, 231; and resolution, 149

  Denmark, Danish: authors in, 490–91; constitution, 41; fortune of, 303–04; language, 489–91; prisons, 714–747

  depression, 151, 154; and diversion, 153; and religious abstraction, 175–76. See also Quidam

  Descartes, 681

  Desdemona, 49–50, 142, 700

  desire, 42–45, 77, 133; resolution’s, 73

  despair, 179, 182; quiet, 199–200, 501, 512–13

  dialectic, the dialectical: and deliberation, 476; of desire, 238; of erotic love, 421; existential, xi; and repentance, 478–79; and sympathy, 478–79; women and, 274

  Dichtung, 150

  Diogenes Laertius, 203; Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
686–87, 688, 690, 699, 702, 703, 706, 719, 722, 723, 733

  Diogenes of Sinope, 68, 555, 690

  Dionysius: and sword of Damocles, 705

  Diotima, 681

  distance, 154–55; of possibility, 205, 571

  divine dispensation, 115–16

  divine, the, 73, 182, 345

  divining rod, 28. See also Ønskeqvist

  Dixi, 494

  Δός μοι που̃ στω̃, 261

  Dods, Marcus, and J. F. Shaw, The Confessions. The City of God. On Christian Doctrine, 724

  Don Giovanni, 537; and Commendatore, 143–44, 535, 744

  Don Juan, 293. See also Don Giovanni

  Don Quixote, 402

  double-movement(s), 413–14

  double-reflection, xi

  doubt, 581; of everything, 34, 120, 540; and reflection, 540

  dove, see analogy

  drama: speculative, 625

  Droysen, Johann Gustav, Aristophanes Werke, 686

  Durling, Robert M., Petrarch’s Lyric Poems The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics, 723

  du(s), 253, 713

  earnestness: and jest, 365–66, 415, 440–41; religious, 440

  Ebert, Johann Arnold, Satiren auf die Ruhmbegierde, Einige Werke von Dr. Eduard Young, 746–47

  Eden, 350, 605

  Edward (in Either/Or), 73

  egotism, 460, 462

  Eiríksson, Magnus, 517; Om Baptister og Barnedaab, 744

  Eliot, George, Essence of Christianity, 738

  Elskov, see erotic love

  Elvira, 28, 49, 537

  Elysium, 173

  Emeline, 570

  engagement; and erotic love, 159

  England, English: authors, 151

  enjoyment, 72, 74, 81

  enthusiast, 403–04, 606; religious, 259–60, 582

  envy, 182

  Epaminondas, 564, 745

  equality, 589; of male and female, 76, 124, 145; religious, 168, 235, 239, 305, 315, 472, 488, 576, 592, 604; of resolution, 169

  Erasmus: Apophthegmata, 730; Opera, 730

  Erdmann, Johann Eduard, 502; God. Guil. Leibnitii opera philosophica . . . , 733, 742

  Eremita, Victor, see KIERKEGAARD, pseudonyms

  Eriksen, Magnus, see Eiriksson

  Erindring, 9

  Ernesti, Johann August: T. Livii Patavini historiarum livre, 740; M. Tullii Ciceronis opera omnia, 677

  Eros, 32, 216, 511, 538; as blind, 158; cannot be resisted, 176; and contradiction, 33; and God, 99–100, 165; and love, 122; serving, 18, 531. See also erotic love

  erotic love [Elskov Forelskelse], 12, 30, 33–34, 36, 71, 99, 156, 158, 175, 202, 405, 538, 591; actuality of, 32; birth as consequence of, 43–45, 511, 542–43; causes amusement, 35, 52, 539; as comic, 33–34, 36–39, 42–44, 541–43, 626; as commensurable, 39–40; contradictions in, 32, 33, 35, 38, 44–45, 77, 558; criteria for, 36; and criticism, 124; danger of, 38, 49, 71, 127–28, 163; deception of, 119; desire of, xi, 44; devotees of, 75–78, 558–59; dialectic of, 164, 421; and engagement, 159; and the eternal, 293; and the ethical, 149; and experience, 176–77; freemasonry of, 39, 41, 72; frivolity of, 12; and God, 163–64; happiness of, 36, 405; ideality of, 32, 550; and immediacy, 100, 102, 160, 167–68; and immortality, 548; and marriage, 97, 100, 102, 105–07, 110–11, 129, 180; object of, 34–36, 37–39, 121–22, 540; origin of, 683; and paganism, 100, 122; and passion, 406; and poetry, 99, 129, 413; and recollection, 521, 523–26; and reflection, 33–34, 40–41, 46, 121–23; and the religious, 163, 167, 178; and resolution, 110–11, 116–17, 146, 161, 164–66, 176; and seduction, 103, 123–24; and solitude, 19; and the tragic, 626; understanding and, 122; unhappy, 31, 53–56, 71–73, 261, 321, 407, 546–47, 570; women and, 33, 38, 43, 46, 124, 548; wonder of, 119, 122, 164. See also Eros; the erotic; love