We've seen the wisdom of Kim Kardashian and Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard strung together seamlessly on the KimKierkegaardashian Twitter account. (If you haven't, please give yourself a huge present by checking it out.)
How does the single individual reassure himself that he is legitimate? A little BiGGie in the morning gets the vibe going.
— KimKierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard) January 30, 2013
The pairing of these two thinkers inevitably leads the mind to wonder about another pairing---St. Augustine, a Core curriculum favorite, and Usher. Both are famed for their "Confessions": for the former, a Christian conversion narrative, and for the latter, an award-winning R&B album. It is sad to think of the potentially great discourse that could have transpired between the two philosophers if they had been contemporaries. Since they are unfortunately separated by about 1700 years, we can only imagine what such an illustrious collaboration might look like. See if you can figure out which wisdom comes from which thinker.
On unfaithfulness: "Got me talkin' to myself askin' how I'm gon' tell you 'bout that chick... I told y'all I was creepin' with... I liked to excuse myself and to accuse some unidentifiable power which was with me and yet not I."
On the self-contradictory nature of the human will: "I'm twisted 'cause one side of me is tellin' me that I need to move on. On the other side I wanna break down and cry. The new will... was not yet stronger to conquer my own older will."
