Round 6: Tossup 7

This thinker critiqued aesthetic egoism with a man whose desire to avoid commitment causes him to treat Cordelia as a means. An “Exordium” opens a work by this thinker that uses Greek tragedy to argue that an individual ruler’s telos are ultimately the good of the state. (-5[2])This thinker was inspired by his relationship with Regine Olsen to include the (*) “Diary of a Seducer” in a work contrasting aesthetic and ethical living. This thinker distinguished between the “knight of infinite resignation” and the “knight of faith” in an analysis of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Danish philosopher who wrote the works Either/Or and (10[1])Fear and Trembling. ■END■ (0[1])

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