This man wrote that anxiety arises from the "dizziness of freedom." According to this man, the self must renew faith in God constantly because it is "a relation [relating] itself to itself." He described aesthetics, ethics and religion as the three stages of life. He also stated that distinction between good and evil depends on God, justifying Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac as a "teleological suspension of the ethical." This man wrote under pseudonyms such as Victor Eremita and Johannes de Silenti
This man wrote that anxiety arises from the "dizziness of freedom." According to this man, the self must renew faith in God constantly because it is "a relation [relating] itself to itself." He described aesthetics, ethics and religion as the three stages of life. He also stated that distinction between good and evil depends on God, justifying Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac as a "teleological suspension of the ethical." This man wrote under pseudonyms such as Victor Eremita and Johannes de Silentio in order to separate himself from his ideas. For 10 points, name this Danish existentialist philosopher and author of Fear and Trembling and Either/Or.
This man wrote that anxiety arises from the "dizziness of freedom."
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard [prompt on "Vigilius Haufniensis" or "Anti-Climacus"; prompt on "Johannes de Silentio" before mentioned]