Soren Kierkegaard - Mystic, Existentialist
1813-1855
Kierkegaard
was a mystic and an existentialist. (Existentialism:
an atheistic philosophy in which everything is relative; there
are no absolute truths)
His Works
(from Faith Undone, chapter 2):
In a dissertation at Purdue University, called "Faith and nothingness in Kierkegaard: A mystical reading of the God-relationship," the writer said of Kierkegaard:
[He] has marked structural similarities to mystics such as Eckhart, who is warmly received by the Japanese philosophical tradition, particularly in the writings of its Zen and Pure Land Buddhist representatives.