Kierkegaard — Faith as a paradox not reducible to ethics

If Abraham's action cannot be explained by universal ethics, is faith a higher justification or a publicly unverifiable danger?

Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling

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The pseudonymous Johannes de silentio presents Abraham as a paradox between universal ethics and an absolute relation to God.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3 Aesthetics and §4 Ethics; discussion of Fear and Trembling
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Because the pseudonym repeatedly says he cannot understand faith, treating his admiration and ‘teleological suspension of the ethical’ as Kierkegaard's direct doctrine erases the authorial strategy.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2 Kierkegaard’s Aesthetics of Authorship; §4 Ethics
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