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A Comparative Analysis … N.T Jørgensen and M. Sohrabian Parizi / 105
that one has a choice. The next comic” is a stage or transition
stage is the aesthetical one. between the ethicist and the last
Here one understands that one category: the religious.
has a choice; But one does not A religious person is one
want to choose. who chose to act ethically; But
The aesthetician only follows does it for the sake of God,
his or her desires, rather it be and understand that the
sexual, intellectual, psychological relation to God is the true
or art related desires. ethical goodness. It is through
A stage related to the the relation to God, one finds
aesthetical stage is “the oneself, and if one does not
Ironist”. The Ironist is a find oneself, it is up to one’s
person, who want to choose; surroundings to define one,
But cannot, and therefor he which is understood as a
becomes frustrated which is horrific position to be in.
shown in anger and hatefulness Ethical discussions are often
towards “spidsborgeren”, who related to the question of
he ridicules. purpose and goodness. In the
The third stage is the ethical ethical thoughts of Kierkegaard,
one. The ethicist is one who true goodness is found as one
knows he or she has a choose submits oneself to the will of God.
and can act upon that choice. Abraham is an example of
The ethicist acts according to true goodness, and the highest
what is understood as ethical moral stage. Abraham was
correct, and he or she does it as commanded to sacrifice his
a result of a choice. The ethicist son, despite killing one’s
chose to act ethically, instead offspring is ethical wrong
of following his or her desires. according to Kierkegaard.
A subcategory of the ethicist Faith is the highest moral trait,
is the “comic”. He is an and as Abraham had faith in
ethicist; But uncertain whether God he became the example of
he should move onto the next the best moral stage.
stage. This means that “the