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Fear and Trembling

Frygt og Bæven

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

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Kierkegaard — Faith as a paradox not reducible to ethics

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

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  1. 1

    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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  1. 1843

    Published pseudonymously in Copenhagen, Fear and Trembling presents faith as an unresolved ethical paradox.

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