The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard: Nature, Religious Moral Psychology, and Normativity

This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard’s understanding of the nature of social comparison. Here, I bring attention to his anthropological but also political and sociological observations that pertai...

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Main Author: Kaftanski, Wojciech (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B Social comparison
B Ethics
B Kierkegaard
B Virtue
B Virtue Ethics
B Vice
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