Ethical and Ontological Dimension of Kierkegaard’s Perception of Freedom

Abstract

Starting with the point of freedom being one of unavoidable ideas of existential philosophy, as well as philosophy in general, we shall consider ethical and ontological aspects of contemplation of freedom in Kierkegaard’s philosophy. We deem that existential philosophy, “contemplated” in all its variations, represents the very horizon or manner of philosophical comprehension of freedom phenomena, where freedom is integrally observed, thus allowing us to talk about unique bliss of ontological and ethical dimension, both of those appearing to be equally important. Therefore, freedom dominates the Kierkegaard’s determination of individual, co-determines all its leap stages but also continually makes possible the sense of human existence.

Polazeći od stava da je sloboda jedna od nezaobilaznih ideja egzistencijalne filozofije, ali i filozofije uopšte, razmatraćemo etičke i ontološke aspekte promišljanja slobode u Kjerkego-rovoj filozofiji. Smatramo da egzistencijalna filozofija, promišljana u svim njenim varijantama, predstavlja onaj horizont ili način filozofskog poimanja fenomena slobode, u kome se slobo-da misli integralno, pa se onda može govoriti o jedinstvenom patosu ontološke i etičke di-menzije, gde se one pokazuju podjednako važnim. Sloboda tako dominira Kjerkegorovim određenjem pojedinca, sa-određuje sve skokovite etape ali i neprestano čini mogućim smi-sao čovekovog bivstvovanja.