Explain what Kierkegaard means by a “teleological suspension of the ethical.” What is his point about the relation of faith to reason?
Often we have no control of what were are hoping to ask and we can count on faith to overcome despair, we have to count of faith so that we can overcome our obstacles. One such obstacle is ethics, when in a situation where you are completely faithful and an ethical decision cannot be made, you must rely on Faith.
We have to define what the following word means before we can answer this questions “Teleological”: means for a (higher) purpose. What is higher purpose is it more than us? What can stand higher than ethic? iI it faith Can it be universal:
The definition of Kierkegaard’s “teleological suspension
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Some people do not understand how this work because it is outside of their experience Some people can understand this when they have the relationship with God themselves. Just like Abraham He does not have any idea that God will save Isaac and give Isaac a higher purpose to save the community that is where faith comes in people life. Learn how to trust faith and God. Sometime there is not a ration explanation how things work in the world people need to trust . People have to use language to tell people how they fell and thought and need . In language there are adjectives, nouns, verbs that people use talk to each …show more content…
The Higher purpose will enable them to think that things that would normally be bound by logic can be broken and that the self, the despair that one feels for not being able to be one’s self or another a self. The wish that their life was somehow inherently different would be absolved by the faith that something beyond them has something for them.
• A person cannot control the world. He is only can control how he feel and what he is thinking. he need to learn how to let things go that he has no control over. Instead of trust faith. It is higher purpose that a person can when a person believe in faith, faith will give him limited possibly objection to all things in their own time will give him the strength to see nothing is impossible. He receives ethical virtue come from a kind of excellence or power that he achieve within himself Faith will give a person one’s self without self-deception or denial where it will center a person