Comparing Kierkegaard's Fear And Trembling

The question of an absolute duty to God visibly appears Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling where he makes an argument that the possibility of an absolute duty to God is real, however it is not attainable to the average man as we will later discuss. Søren Kierkegaard also brings into light the role of the universal ethical if one is to solely bestow themselves to God and faith, (one should note that the definition that Kierkegaard uses to describe ‘faith’ is very much different to usual definition of faith). The reasons behind Kierkegaard’s apparent religious devotion in Fear and Trembling is due to the time period he had lived. As it is with so many philosophers, that the time period they have lived in has an immense role in their philosophical thinking and writings, and Søren Kierkegaard is no

As Christianity in Denmark at time had forgotten the true and simple words of the Gospel according Kierkegaard’s explanation. Equally Kierkegaard had seen, people had become compliance with Christianity, as they had called themselves Christian, but did not practice the words of the Gospel. In Danish society one was simply assumed a Christian, because they were born in a Christianized country or were baptized and, to Kierkegaard the religious institution made people neglect the true nature of what it is to be a Christian. Kierkegaard believed that it took one a lifetime to become a true Christian, and one had to completely isolate themselves from worldly things and almost become peasant like, in order to become a single individual which is higher than the universal ethical, Kierkegaard suggest that “to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”; it is this which Kierkegaard argues throughout his