Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy

Fear and Trembling: The Knight of Faith

Through the terrible story of Abraham, commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac, Kierkegaard explores faith at its most extreme. The ‘knight of faith’ makes a double movement: infinite resignation (giving up everything) and then, by virtue of the absurd, receiving it back. Faith may even require a ‘teleological suspension of the ethical’.

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You learned that in Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard reads Abraham as the ‘knight of faith’ who makes a double movement - infinite resignation (giving Isaac up) and faith (receiving him back by virtue of the absurd) - and that faith may require a ‘teleological suspension of the ethical’, the indi…

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