Comparing Kierkegaard's Fear And Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard’s work - “Fear and Trembling” is very influential in Christian thinking and analyzes about Abraham’s story. In his "Fear and Trembling" Kierkegaard analyzes the negative state of spiritual life: fear, anxiety, and annoyance. Kierkegaard uses them as a decisive force in the conversion of man to Christianity. These extreme conditions are estimated by him as extremely important in a person's life only to the extent that their freedom is capable of manifesting in them. To manifest itself morally, that is, in accordance with the divine will and word, it can only be negative in relation to the psychic. After all, any, even the most original phenomenon of the human psyche belongs to the existing, and not the divine, the beyond. God
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According to Descartes’ philosophy the existence is an integral part of being, therefore, it is impossible to recognize the idea of God, not allowing his existence. Descartes never denied the existence of God, he even used his own existence to define the existence of God. “And indeed it is no surprise that God, in creating me, should have placed this idea in me to be, as it were, the mark of the craftsman stamped on his work—not that the mark need be anything distinct from the work itself.” (Descartes, Third Meditation, 35) According to him people were born with thought of existence of God and this idea was probably placed in human mind by the supreme being, since he is the one who created us. In his opinion the term of supreme being was only related to God and he was the only one who had an enormous impact in our minds. Descartes believed that human minds is full of imagination and perception. However, he was not sure if his thoughts of imagination and perception was realistic. However, it was impossible for people to create the idea of God from imagination. There is a reason behind everything. Whatever happens, happens for reason. He believed that all human being are finite and only God is infinite. This thought contradicts with the Kierkegaard's argument. Because, in Abraham’s case Kierkegaard argued that Abraham’s desire to sacrifice his own son was to give up finite and to grasp
According to Descartes’ philosophy the existence is an integral part of being, therefore, it is impossible to recognize the idea of God, not allowing his existence. Descartes never denied the existence of God, he even used his own existence to define the existence of God. “And indeed it is no surprise that God, in creating me, should have placed this idea in me to be, as it were, the mark of the craftsman stamped on his work—not that the mark need be anything distinct from the work itself.” (Descartes, Third Meditation, 35) According to him people were born with thought of existence of God and this idea was probably placed in human mind by the supreme being, since he is the one who created us. In his opinion the term of supreme being was only related to God and he was the only one who had an enormous impact in our minds. Descartes believed that human minds is full of imagination and perception. However, he was not sure if his thoughts of imagination and perception was realistic. However, it was impossible for people to create the idea of God from imagination. There is a reason behind everything. Whatever happens, happens for reason. He believed that all human being are finite and only God is infinite. This thought contradicts with the Kierkegaard's argument. Because, in Abraham’s case Kierkegaard argued that Abraham’s desire to sacrifice his own son was to give up finite and to grasp