... of ancestors that gave birth to existentialism in its current form, starting with the work of Soren Kierkegaard, which inspired both Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, and the post World War II work of Jean-Paul Sartre. Soren Kierkegaard was a strange, captivating, and quite unclassifiable Dane; whose important writings appeared in the 1840's (Barrett 20). He believed that his own life, his freedom, developed ... of objects. The function of fallenness is to quiet man's anxiety about his true condition, and tempt him into an appeasement. This separates man from his true self by entangling ...

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