The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard: Nature, Religious Moral Psychology, and Normativity

This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard’s understanding of the nature of social comparison. Here, I bring attention to his anthropological but also political and sociological observations that pertai...

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Main Author: Wojciech Kaftanski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/11/1394