Existentialism and AAMT

EXISTENTIALISM

Since the day I came to know this word.. it always drawn great interest in me.. and that was way back in the early 2000.. when I began to embark on my life long learning passion.

Back then.. Awal Agama Mengenal Tuhan was non existence.. in my vocabulary of life.

Here goes..

As early as 1835 in a letter to his friend Peter Wilhelm Lund, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote one of his first existentially sensitive passages.

In it, he describes a truth that is applicable for him:

"What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain knowledge must precede every action.

The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.

I certainly do not deny that I still recognize an imperative of knowledge and that through it one can work upon men, but it must be taken up into my life, and that is what I now recognize as the most important thing".

Søren Kierkegaard, Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund dated August 31, 1835.