PHIL-101 Lecture 11: PHIL 101 Lecture 11: Intro Philosophy: Kierkegaard Part II
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Intellectual: abstract, external, contemplative generates, kierkegaard wants to make us passionately interested in the uncertainty he, theres a problem even if youre impressed with abrahams exhibition of. Is there an external measurement of madness vs. faith? faith, you have to ask if abraham is a lunatic: from the outside, there is no way of distinguishing faith from madness. Is faith a category that we want to. If faith is what he suggests, then it is not the sort of thing that could be political or social. Faith is the highest good, but it has no worldly significance. Fear and trembling is a love letter to regina. The epigraph is there to signal a coded discourse. Kierkegaard breaks up with her for no reason why, but he still loves her. Even though they broke up, he still believes that there is still a relationship.
