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THE QUESTION IN THIS SCENE
How far can reason speak about faith?
Published pseudonymously in Copenhagen, Fear and Trembling presents faith as an unresolved ethical paradox.
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?
London → Copenhagen
Why this scene is pinned here
The source supports the event-place association, not the truth of the philosophy or a line of influence.
Søren Kierkegaard
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: Bibliography, Fear and Trembling, Copenhagen 1843
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