The Concept Of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologicall... Link

: Anxiety is the awareness of what could happen; it is the "possibility of possibility".

: For Kierkegaard, "more anxiety = more spirit". Animals do not experience this existential dread because they lack the self-conscious freedom that makes humans "spirit". A Comparative Theology of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologicall...

: While anxiety itself is not sin, it is the state that precedes the "qualitative leap" into sin. In his analysis of the Garden of Eden, Kierkegaard suggests Adam felt anxiety when faced with the choice to obey or disobey God. : Anxiety is the awareness of what could