Year: 1985 Source: Philosophy Today, v.29, (Fall 1985), p.203-212 SIEC No: 20040682

This essay aims to explain Kierkegaard’s often repeated claim that the objective thinker is a suicide. The current author reads this to mean that chronic objectivity requires the chronic supression of self-concern, which is the only thing that can give continuity to humn existence. Where there is no-continuity, there is no life; hence, the suicide claim.