Kierkegaard On Abraham’s Movement To The ‘Knight of Faith’ And Its Possible Understanding In Existential Therapy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/kg5px054Keywords:
Uncertainty, Knight of Resignation, Knight of Faith, double movement, The Lad and the Princess, unconditional commitment, renunciationAbstract
Kierkegaard's notion of the 'Knight of Faith' is examined in his short treatise Fear and Trembling. Although the thoughts are slanted towards the religious in the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, Kierkegaard shows that his concepts offer an existential idea of living passionately against a life of uncertainty.
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