Key Ideas

1. The Sickness Unto Death is a philosophical work written by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

2. The book explores the concept of despair and its relationship to the self.

3. Kierkegaard argues that despair is the result of a lack of self-awareness and an inability to accept one's own finitude.

4. The book distinguishes between different forms of despair, including the despair of not wanting to be oneself and the despair of wanting to be oneself.

5. Kierkegaard contends that the despair of not wanting to be oneself is the most common form of despair.

6. According to Kierkegaard,....
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