Part II where he begins: "The esthetic view also considers the personality in relation to the surrounding world, and the expression for this is in its recurrence in the personality of enjoyment. But the esthetic expression for enjoyment in its relation to the personality is mood. That is, the personality is present in the mood, but it is dimly present. ... The mood of the person who lives ethically is centralized. He is not in the mood, and he is not mood, but he has mood and has the mood within himself. What he works for is continuity, and this is always the master of mood. His life does not lack mood-indeed, it has a total mood. But this is acquired; it is what would be called aequale tempermentum [even disposition]. But this is no esthetic mood, and no person has it by nature or immediately." Later, in 1845, he repeated the same point in Stages on Life's Way with a story about an individual with an addiction to gambling and another individual who was a gambler but wasn't in despair because of it: Throughout his writings Kierkegaard reiterated his emphasis on the single individual learning how to make a resolution. One example is the following prayer from his April 26, 1848 book Christian Discourses. Notes References Bibliography — — — . External links Gotthold Lessing, Lessing's Theological Writings, Selections in Translation Stanford University Press, Jun 1, 1957 Center on Capitalism & Society 200 Anniversary of Soren Kierkegaard Leap of Faith (Video) Jack Crabtree (Gutenberg College, Eugene Oregon) Explaining Kierkegaard Marx and Kierkegaard, Sea of Faith, 1984 BBC documentary YouTube Video From the Aesthetic to the Leap of Faith: Søren Kierkegaard YouTube video Barriers to critical thinking Belief Concepts in epistemology Concepts in logic Concepts in the philosophy of mind Christian personal development Criticism of rationalism Søren Kierkegaard