ABSTRACT
From the Old Danish and Old Norse angr, the lexical meaning of the modern Danish is a sense of sorrow, pain, grief, or remorse, especially over the commitment of a sin.1 In descending order of frequency, the concept of repentance is discussed in Stages on Life’s Way, Either/Or, The Concept of Anxiety, Edifying Discourse in Various Spirits, and in “On the Occasion of a Confession” from Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. To a lesser extent the concept is discussed in Philosophical Fragments and the journals and notebooks.
