 |
|
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140444491
ISBN-13: 9780140444490
Jan 1986
Publisher: Viking Pr
Reprint
Penguin Classics Series
Language: English |
|
|
| * Actual items for sale may vary from the above information and image. |
|
|
|
 View all Good Items |
|
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
Price
|
|
Seller
(Feedback)
|
|
Comments
|
|
Shipping
|
|
Ships From
|
|
|
|
$3.89 |
 |
ebbargains
(78 ) 100%
|
|
Tanning pages. Writing on a few pages. Little edge/shelf wear. Prompt... |
|
Media Mail |
|
ML* |
|
More info... |
|
|
$10.50 |
|
penntext
(2361 ) 99%
|
|
**Books may NOT include Online Access Codes (InfoTrac, MyEconLab).** Books... |
 |
Media Mail
Upgrade |
|
PA |
|
More info... |
|
|
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
 |
|
Synopsis
Kierkegaard's FEAR AND TREMBLING, written under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, uses the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac to delve into the meaning of ethics and religion. For Kierkegaard, Abraham's "leap to faith" (frequently misquoted as a "leap of faith") is admirable, but utterly incomprehensible, and his willingness to murder his own son is clearly an anti-ethical act. As a result, Kierkegaard determines that ethics and religion are separate entities: ethics are concerned with the universal good and the community at large whereas religion involves an individual's interaction with God. Since religious experience can bring about anti-ethical actions such as Abraham's a willingness to sacrifice Isaac, religion moves in a sphere above and beyond the dictates of ethics. Since religion derives from an internal passion and is both unknowable and fundamentally irrational, Kierkegaard acknowledges the underlying irrationality at the root of human spiritual experience. These ecstatic and disturbing themes, and Kierkegaard's rich language, have made FEAR AND TREMBLING one of the most influential and accessible works of modern philosophy.
| Details | | Series: | Penguin Classics Series |
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
|
|
 |
|
| If you likeFear and Trembling, you may also enjoy: |
|
|
|
|
)
)
)
)
)
)
All rights reserved.