Kierkegaard called this stage that most people throughout their life not go beyond the aesthetic stage. The comprehensive principle of aesthetic life is …man to enjoy life. You can see this life position, to satisfy his lust but rarely to end led life. The burdens of earthly life are mind, least and necessary but the finiteness and unavailability of your own being, which always threatens to destroy just gained happiness and each conditional freedom. The pursuit of pleasure does not rest in itself, but points always beyond themselves. The pursuit of pleasure becomes more radical, the closer the man on the border of the aesthetic reach, but the aesthetic and the finite, he reaches not. Instead get on the border of the aesthetic emotions such as melancholy and despair, which lead the aesthetician’s eye, that the aesthetic approach to life the Experience of difference only endless continues, rather than to bring a synthesis.
Stops the man in despair and sadness, is the existence of movement to an end. He is, however, aware that and why he’s desperate, he takes in other words, his Existenzals of that inter-eat seriously, then comes a new dialectical movement, which it is to bring the aesthetic in a holistic and internal order. It opened the door to the ethical stage. By the ethical man, he chooses himself. What is the ethical in the existence of the people? Ethically exist means according to Kierkegaard, to the ideality of a General should the concrete existence and reality: the ethics shows the ideality as a task, and assumes that the person in possession of the conditions.
At this stage the person to a new, unconditional freedom leads a radical departure from the finitude. As long as you remain in the pure thought, the ethical requirement does not become the problem. Kierkegaard but goes it comes to the truth of the existence of concrete.