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. This thinker was inspired by his relationship with Regine Olsen to include the (*) “Diary of a Seducer” in a work contrasting (10[1])aesthetic and ethical living. This thinker distinguished between the “knight of infinite resignation” (10[1])and the “knight of faith” in an analysis of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. For 10 points, name (10[1])this Danish philosopher who wrote the works Either/Or and Fear and Trembling. ■END■

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