Fatal illness - a disease that leads to death

Japanese: 死に至る病 - しにいたるやまい

(Original title: Sygdommen til Døden) Philosophical book by Kierkegaard, published in 1849. He defines despair in the deepest sense as the refusal to become one's true self by standing before God, and defines this as a "deadly disease" for the human soul, and teaches that it can only be overcome by pure Christian faith. The title comes from the story of Lazarus' resurrection in Chapter 11 of the Gospel of John in the New Testament.

A disease that can lead to death

① A disease that is certain to result in death. A disease for which there is no cure. A fatal disease. ② (A word derived from the story of the resurrection of Lazarus in the Gospel of John in the New Testament) A hopeless matter. Despair. In particular, Kierkegaard emphasized this in relation to the human condition, and he has written a book of the same name.

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Japanese:

(原題Sygdommen til Døden) 哲学書。キェルケゴール著。一八四九年刊。最も深い意味での絶望とは、神の前に立つことによって真の自己になろうとするあり方を拒むことであり、これこそが人間の魂にとって「死に至る病」であると規定し、その克服は純粋なキリスト教信仰によってのみ可能であると説く。標題は、新約聖書「ヨハネ伝福音書」一一章のラザロ復活物語による。