Fear and Trembling. Dialectical Lyrics

For the first time, the Ukrainian reader is offered a translation of a masterpiece of world significance, one of the key works of the famous Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling,” published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de Silenzio. In the work, the thinker comprehensively interprets the sacrifice of Isaac, which was carried out by his father Abraham, and against the background of this biblical plot raises fundamental problems of moral philosophy and theology, in particular the issues of God and faith, ethics and morality, the passionate attitude towards faith of the “Knight of Faith” as opposed to the “Knight of Infinity.”

The problem of the existence of absolute duty to God, the disproportionate superiority of the inner world of man over the outer world, is raised, pointing to the relative nature of ethics and the error of modern Hegelian philosophy. Without absolute duty to the Creator, faith will not exist, and Abraham’s choice will be perceived as a crime.

An indispensable guide to the spiritual routes of religion and philosophy, addressed to lovers of wisdom.