1. Kierkegaard, Anxiety and Time
... , but that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two [components]. So regarded, man is not yet a self. In the relationship between two, the relation is the third as a negative unity, and the two ... subject." (BE 37) These two elements are important in that they synthesize the physical and psychical elements of the self to represent the dynamic character of the single individual. (BE 39) Necessity and freedom is bett...
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