Fear and trembling

A novel “fear and trembling” is an influential philosophical work by soren kierkegaard. In the novel, through alternative retellings of the Biblical story of the Binding of Isaac, Kierkegaard examines the role of faith and its relationship with morality and ethics. I think the main point of the book is that the knight of faith, abraham carries out the sacrifice without knowing the reason why. The title also comes from a passage in the bible in which God comands his disciples to work toward their own salvation in his abscence. Abraham, throughout the book, sacrifices that which he loves his faith that he sacrigfices wothout knowong why, he sscrifices in the name of absolute faith. In the novel “fear and trembling”, the knight of faith cannot speak of his relation with the absolute, speaking is the tempetation that would break his absolute realation. The knight of faith must remain silent, so that this responsiblity remains with the absolute and sacrifiece demanded secret and the resons for the sacrifice are in themslves secret.