PHIL 367 Chapter : Fear and Trembling (Epilogue)
17 Mar 2012
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Once when the spice market in holland was a little slack, the merchants had some cargoes dumped at sea to force up the price is this something similar we need in the world of the spirit? (149) Using the very thing being criticized as an instrument of criticism. What the dutch merchants did involved an act of sabotage in the name of a greater good in this case, greater profit. Kierkegaard"s ideal christianity is one that is charming to behold and inviting to all, yet hard too and an inspiration to noble minds (149), a perhaps difficult request to make of religion! However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor [passion] every generation begins afresh the task of no later generation is shorter than its predecessors (149). Thus, this focus on subjective rather than objective faith is a direct criticism on those that advanced the ladder of faith idea.
