ABSTRACT
The Danish word nødvendig derives from the German notwendig. Molbech gives as the first and philosophical meaning of nødvendig “that which contains the ground of its own existence and whose opposite is an impossibility or contradicts itself.”1 In this way, Nødvendighed is that which “does not allow choice.”2 This definition is very close to the one Kierkegaard provides in Philosophical Fragments: “Necessity stands all by itself.”3
