Abstract:

Mizah is one of the speaking styles that are extremely effective in influencing human thought and behavior. However, Danish philosopher S. Kierkegaard believes that humor/ironic is connected to human existence beyond being a narrative style or a literary method. He discusses humor and irony in his assessment of the three fields of existence—three existential life stages; aesthetics, ethics and religious. While Mizah determines the boundary between ethical and religious fields, it determines the boundary between irony, aesthetic and ethical fields. For Kierkegaard, the irony and humour are the circumstances relating to the whole existence of the individual within the world, the existence conditions. Kierkegaard claims that there is an original relationship between humour and human existence. He places the essence of the humor he calls "smile" in the disharmonic between the hoped and the experienced. The existence itself is an effort, and it is as sad as it is ridiculous, it is sad as it is eternal or as it is aimed at the eternal; it is funny as it contradicts itself. For Kierkegaard, irony and especially humor have a religious dimension. Mizah is the last stage of existencial consciousness before faith. Kierkegaard believes that subjective development is closely linked to the ability of a person to perceive what’s funny.

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