In Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling he talks about Abraham
from the Old Testament. Kierkegaard thinks that Abe is an example of real
faith. He shares the story of Abe taking his son Isaac to be sacrificed to God,
even after he had been promised this son and promised that he would carry on
Abraham’s name. Abe had patiently waited (although messing up a few times) and
been true to God. Kierkegaard talks about how this type of faith is so
important. I really appreciate Kierkegaard for a lot of reasons. First of all
he is one of the only Christian philosophers within the Existentialists, which
shows his own boldness. Also, he approached existentialism in a completely
different light that I think makes it look that much better. His view of
existentialism includes faith in something that much more powerful than us as
humans. Nietzsche and Heidegger try to create a completely new “human” : The
Overman and Dasein for society to follow. The funny thing is that they create
these two things out of disdain for Christianity, however, their creation is
extremely similar to that of Jesus Christ. However, because they lacked faith
they tried to create their own being.
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