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I sort of see this argument as an extension of evil as privation, in a funny way. The living being's evil is more than mere ignorance, it is a willful ignorance, a refusal to see or acknowledge what ought to be. I know the good, and yet do not do it, and find, deep down, a deep fear of knowing anymore of the good. Kierkegaard takes into account self-consciousness and human irrationality in a way that the earlier arguments could not (or at least did not).
The last book I read to really get me excited about Kierkegaard was Charles K. Bellinger's The Genealogy of Violence, which contains an adapted version of this essay