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Fear and trembling and the sickness unto death

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Fear and Trembling (F&T) is based on the story in Genesis 21-22 of God ordering Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Kierkegaard says in F&T, "If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power which writhing with obscure passions produced everything that is great and everything that is insignificant, if a bottomless void never satiated lay hidden beneath all---what then would life be but despair?" (Pg. 30) He points out, "What they leave out of Abraham's history is dread; for to money I have no ethical obligation, but to the son the father has the highest and most sacred obligation."

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189 LOW f

Z. HANDIMAN

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Call Number

189 LOW f

Publisher

New Jersey : Princeton University Press., 1973

Collation

278p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-691-01962-2

Classification

189

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Subject(s)

MEDIEVAL WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

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E/v

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