ABSTRACT
Luigi Pareyson's L'etica di Kierkegaard nella prima fase del suo pensiero, first published in 1965 by Giappichelli Editore, represents the manuscript of the first lecture series on Kierkegaard's ethics given by Pareyson at the University of Turin. Pareyson starts from the general premise that Kierkegaard's ethical thought has as basis the distinction of the ethical stage and the aesthetic stage on the one side and of the ethical stage and the religious stage on the other. The analysis of the distinction between the aesthetic stage and the ethical stage, which covers the first three chapters of the book, is performed by Pareyson starting with a focus on the symbolic figures of the seducer and the husband. It is in the final chapter, that the second distinction, that is, between the ethical stage and the religious stage, is approached. And it is here that Pareyson's fundamental contribution to the Italian reception of Kierkegaard's ethical thought is made.
