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Fear and Trembling - Coggle Diagram
Fear and Trembling
"Preface"
Faith vs. Doubt
Difficulties of truly attaining faith
"Attunement"
Imaginary depictions of what could have been
Stages of a child's growth
Apparent maternal "betrayals"
"Speech in Praise of Abraham"
Greatness of Abraham: paradoxical
"... it is great to give up one's desire, but greater to stick to it after having given it up" (52)
Abraham's faith = "faith for
this
life"
For Abraham to doubt would've been to "do something great and glorious"
"Problemata"
"Preamble from the Heart"
World of spirit: world of paradox (57)
People's forgetfulness of "anguish" (58)
Faith: making murder holy? (60)
Difficulty of "shrewd" folks in attaining faith, while the simple do it with ease (62)
God's love: "incommensurable w/ whole of reality" (63)
"Incommensurable"?
"Infinite resignation"? (64)
Not a substitute for faith
Faith: beyond infinite resignation (66)
Resignation: termination in pain; Faith: able to receive Isaac back w/ joy
"In infinite resignation there is peace and repose... this movement... in its pain reconciles one to existence" (74)
Infinite resignation = last stage before faith (75)
"Strength of the absurd"? (65)
"A paradoxical and humble courage... grasp the whole of temporality on the strength of the absurd" (77).
Faith: firmly bound up with the finite (68)
"He resigned everything infinitely, and then took everything back on the strength of the absurd" (70).
"Problema I: Is there a teleological suspension of the ethical?"
"The ethical" = "the universal" (83)
Has no external
telos
; is itself
telos
for everything else
"The individual" = "the particular" w/
telos
in "the universal"
Individual's "ethical task" = "abrogate" particularity to "become the universal"
Sin = individual asserting own "particularity" contra "universal"
Faith: paradox of the individual being "higher" than the universal (84)
Result: individual stands in "absolute relation to the absolute" (85)
"Absolute"? "Absolute relation"?
Three options for Abraham: murderer, tragic hero, or man of faith (85)
Difference between tragic hero and Abraham: "tragic hero stays within the ethical" (87)
Abraham: "overstepped the ethical altogether... had a higher
telos
outside it" (88)
Why? For God; for himself (88)
"temptation is ethical itself" (88)
Abraham's story: "teleological suspension of the ethical" (95)
"Problema II: Is there an absolute duty to God?"
Ethical = universal = divine (96)
Duty = duty to God when referred to God
No entrance into relation to God in duty itself
Nevertheless, God must be beyond the ethical, otherwise "love for God" becomes meaningless
Faith's paradox: individual determines relation to universal through relation to absolute, not other way round (97-98)
Ethical not erased, but (in Abraham's case) God-love requires "opposite expression" of neighbour-love (98)
Ethically speaking: father should love son
Faith: not "mediated into the universal," lest it be "cancelled" (99)
God: "demands absolute love" (101)
Paradox of Abraham: (101)
Ethical expression at moment of sacrifice: hate
Nevertheless, opposite is true, otherwise God would not require Abraham to make sacrifice
"When God asks for Isaac, Abraham must if possible love him even more, and only then can he
sacrifice
him; for it is indeed this love of Isaac that in its paradoxical opposition to his love of God makes his act a sacrifice"
"Distress and fear in paradox of faith" (103)
Tragic hero: renounce particular for universal
Knight of faith: renounce universal for particular
"Problema III: Was it ethically defensible of Abraham to conceal his purpose?"
Ethical = universal = "the disclosed" (109)
"Concealment" = sinful state of temptation?
"Recognition and concealment"? (111)
"Aesthetics"?
Aesthetics vs. ethics
Aesthetics: calls for concealment and rewards it (113)
Requires disclosure and avails itself of coincidence (114)
Ethics: calls for disclosure and punishes concealment (113)
Requires disclosure and finds satisfaction in tragic hero (114)
Tragic hero = darling of ethics = understandable