An anecdote from my Kierkegaard professor at the University of Copenhagen

In the original text of Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard plays with the Danish language to describe humanity’s relation to the self. He writes that our selfhood is not a “gave” but an “opgave.” This roughly translates to say that the self is not a gift, but a given. In other words, the fact that we have a self is an assignment rather than a blessing. We are not given a self, but are forced to choose and create ourselves.

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