My interpretations so far reading either/or and sickness unto death which isn’t a lot that’s why I’m going to revise it in the future as I read more of his work Also one thing I forgot to add is that each sphere in the Ascension Diagram (bottom) corresponds with the order Kierkegaard wrote his works. Aesthetic, first part of Either/Or (1843) Ethical, second part of Either/Or (1843) Religious, Sickness Unto Death (1849) or Stages on Life’s Way (1845) I know sickness unto death isn’t necessarily related to Either/Or and Stages on Life’s Way but the spheres of existence is one of Kierkegaards core philosophies and also it has passages implying the aesthetic/ethical (I can site from the “new translation” edition if you’d like) It can also correspond to Kierkegaard evolving through his life and his desicions with Regine Olsen Aesthetic, having a pretty extravagant social life and such where he met Regine Olsen I think Ethical, making the deduction or proposing to her and committing to marriage Religious, breaking off the engagement for a religious calling and to dedicate himself to his work, which makes sense because from what I’ve read the religious sphere seems to be just higher than the aesthetic/ethical (one would argue that his desicion to break off the engagement was aesthetic, but as shown by the Venn diagram the aesthetic and religious are related in some ways and someone could become religious by making a seemingly aesthetic desicion) Guys I want to rant to someone who knows about this so bad but I don’t think there are any Kierkegaard fans on scratch ToT
