Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title
• Table of Contents
• Translator’s Introduction
• Translator’s Note
• Foreword
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1st Part: The Sickness unto Death is Despair
• A. That Despair Is the Sickness unto Death
• A. Despair is a sickness in the spirit, in the self, and can thus be threefold: in despair not to be conscious of having a self; in despair not to will to be oneself; in despair to will to be oneself
• B. The possibility and actuality of despair
• C. Despair is: “the sickness unto death”
• B. The Universality of This Sickness (Despair)
• C. The Forms of This Sickness (Despair)
• A. Despair considered without reflecting upon whether or not it is conscious, so that only the elements of the synthesis are reflected upon
• a. Despair considered under the qualification finitude/infinitude
• α) Infinitude’s despair is to lack finitude
• β) Finitude’s despair is to lack infinitude
• b. Despair considered under the qualification possibility/necessity
• α) Possibility’s despair is to lack necessity
• β) Necessity’s despair is to lack possibility
• B. Despair considered under the qualification: consciousness
• a. The despair that is ignorant of being despair, or the despairing ignorance of having a self and an eternal self
• b. The despair that is conscious of being despair, that thus is conscious of having a self in which there is at any rate something eternal, and then either in despair does not will to be itself or in despair wills to be itself
• α) In despair not to will to be oneself: weakness’s despair
• 1) Despair over the earthly or over something earthly
• 2) Despair of the eternal or over oneself
• β) In despair to will to be oneself: defiance
• 2nd Part: Despair Is Sin
• A. Despair Is Sin
• Chapter 1. The Gradations in Consciousness of the Self (the Qualification: Before God)
• Appendix. That the definition of sin has within itself the possibility of offense; a general observation concerning offense
• Chapter 2. The Socratic Definition of Sin
• Chapter 3. That Sin is Not a Negation, but a Position
• Appendix to A. But then, does not sin in a certain sense become a great rarity? (the moral)
• B. The Continuation of Sin
• A. The sin of despairing over one’s sin
• B. The sin of despairing of the forgiveness of sins (offense)
• C. The sin of abandoning Christianity modo ponendo of declaring it to be untruth
• Also Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse for Liveright
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