PHIL-101 Lecture 10: PHIL 101 Lecture 10: Intro Philosophy: Kierkegaard Part I
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Kierkegaard is not hiding stuff underneath a layer of text. He is ironic in a different way. Kierkegaard cannot say exactly what he wants to say. If ones relationship to the divine is based upon fear and trembling: then its no good, fear and trembling is opposite of faith. Then it is not about god, it is just about bettering yourself. Its trading, the person gives worship and they get a good place in the afterlife: he wants to ask: Irony of the text: he thinks that orthodoxy and orthopraxy are both ways of avoiding faith, faith is exceptionally rare. He is horror struck everyone is so stuck on following religion to a t: he wants people to be nonconformist, he wants people to ask what is faith. Kierkegaard is trying to make the case that the difference between being. mad and religious are not able to be defined.
