This is the fourth and last in a series of four short lectures that describe the similarities and differences between the early work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

The lectures will focus on Kierkegaard's book Enten Eller and two of Nietzsche's books Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik and Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. All lectures include short readings from the original text in Danish and German simultaneously translated and explained in English.

This lecture focuses on the second difference between Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Nietzsche views life as an endless honorable struggle while Kierkegaard views life as a boring and mundane experience, full of self-reflection and regret.