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A 5 page analysis of Soren Kierkegaard's book Fear and Trembling, in which the nineteenth century Danish philosopher argues that there are three stages to human existence, the highest of which is religious. No additional sources cited.
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their physical, emotional and intellectual desires. Since the nature of sensual gratification makes it fleeting, the aesthetically oriented individual is never satisfied.
The second stage of human existence is the ethical stage, in which individuals are dominated by their sense of right and wrong. However, reality often deals people choices that are
ambiguous, leaving them to decide between equally evil options, so those who are in the ethical stage remain as unfulfilled as those who are still in the aesthetic stage. Nevertheless,
Kierkegaard makes it clear that he considers courage to be a factor that operates on the level of the ethical and the religious, and that the highest form of courage
is religious courage, which is a higher and more desirable type of courage than moral courage. The subject of Kierkegaards book Fear and Trembling deals with the third stage
of human existence?the religious. This stage Kierkegaard subdivides into two types of religious individuals?the Knight of Infinite Resignation and the Knight of Faith. Kierkegaard describes the Knight of Infinite
Resignation as a person who possesses an awakened religious consciousness, but who remains bound up by guilt. The Knight of Faith is described by Kierkegaard as the individual who
lives in response to God, no matter what appearances may be. As an example of the Knight of Faith, Kierkegaard turns to the story of Abraham, which he sees as
representing the highest form of religious courage. Kierkegaard comments: "His (i.e., Abrahams) heroic action demands courage, but it belongs to this courage that he shall shun no argumentation" (Kierkegaard 97).
In the story of Abraham, God promised him that he would be the father of a multitude of nations, which would be made possible by the birth of his
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