Passion as a Will to Existence in Kierkegaard

Abstract Kierkegaard might be aptly called a philosopher of passion due to his enormous emphasis on this concept. At the same time his notion of passion is highly original and does not correspond to common usage of the term. That is why the paper begins with pointing out the differences between the two. However, the main intention of the paper is to interpret his specific concept of passion as a will to existence on the basis of analyzing the correlative relationship between passion and existence, and as a part of this goal to outline some positive aspects of passion as found in Kierkegaard’s authorship.