Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) put the single individual, choice and the personal relationship with God at the center of his philosophy. Anxiety and despair are not just flaws but conditions that reveal freedom and the self's relation to itself; for him, faith is not a neutral proof but a demanding existential movement that no system can make on your behalf.
Source: ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, Sunday, August 23, 2026, 4:17 a.m.