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Kierkegaard

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Fear and Trembling, a Dialectical Poem, by Abraham Er Decision to Obey the Injunction to Sacrifice His Son, Isaac

The story of raham's willingness to sacrifice his, his only son, isaac, is that by any ordinary moral or indeed, esthetic standards, it's a completely outrageous thing to do. And i love the way he begins this book, fear and trembling,. subtitled a dialectical lyric, which is to say, a kind of logical poem. Sfull of contradiction. In terms of generic am it's a generic nothing. This book has this wonderful section called a tunement where it says, there once was a man, a tunement, a tunements, there once been a man. Once upon there was a man. As a child, he'd read the

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