Søren Kierkegaard didn’t write philosophy to explain the world. He wrote to explain what it feels like to live inside a human life. In this episode, we explore his three stages of existence: the aesthetic life of pleasure and distraction, the ethical life of responsibility and commitment, and the religious life—not as belief or doctrine, but as the acceptance of reality as it is. This is not a ladder of progress, but a map of how humans avoid, confront, and finally stand inside existence itself.