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as truly ethical, he concluded if one forgets oneself, because
that the best stage is the then one forgets the ethics. To
religious, as one act ethically but know oneself is to be ethical,
for the sake of God. If ethics is Kierkegaard argued.
the common morals, then it can In the first theory, “ethics”
be overruled by the religious, as was used to define a stage,
it is considered as higher. ranging lower than the
(Kierkegaard, 1982c: 50) “religious” stage; But in his
The last example of the term later use of the term, being
“ethics” is from work: ethical and being religious is the
“Concluding Unscientific same. It is uncertain whether
Postscript to Philosophical Kierkegaard understood ethics
Fragments”. Here ethics is on different levels, or he
described as something which is gradually changed his idea of
gradually forgotten in the ethics as time passed.
society. (Kierkegaard, 1982: 24) As briefly mentioned,
He argued that ethics is Kierkegaard argued that
what makes one understand humans find themselves at
the “reality of oneself”, and as different stages. One can move
ethics are more and more from one stage to another; But
forgotten, people will lose that takes self-understanding.
their understandings of the The first stage is the
reality of themselves. “spidsborger”. At this stage,
To reflect, to think, and to one acts according to the norms
choose the ethical choices is to of the society one lives in,
understand the existence, and the without reflecting, questioning
consequence of forgetting ethics, or choosing the actions.
is disremembering of one’s One merely acts as the
purpose of existence, or even the society expects from you and
existence in and of itself. does it on a non-reflected
All knowledge and sciences foundation. At this stage, one
in the World, does not matter has not yet come to understand
