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