Kierkegaard wrote writes about the "teleological suspension of the ethical", that is, the suspension of the moral law for the sake of a higher law. ... The second one is the ethical, based on living by a code or set of principles, which is difficult and demands agonizing choices. ... It is not as deliberate and rational as the ethical, nor as irresponsible and desperate as the aesthetical. ...

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