Fear And Trembling Analysis

Faith is a commitment, an action of making the commitment real which is passionate, and something you doubt. The harder the commitment, the deeper the passion. To Kierkegaard, doubt is necessary for personal identity which happens to be faith. In Fear and Trembling, Abraham tried to explain to Isaac that he is to be sacrificed, but said, “Do you think it is God’s command? No, it is my desire” (9). Abraham acted in this manner for Isaac to not blame God, but to blame Abraham himself. Issac should not lose faith in God where an analogy was used to show a mother blacken her breast milk to withdraw the child from suckling her breast. The mother remains the same, but the breast changes. Abraham did what God asked him to do, however, it was unwillingly nor did he understood.
In addition, Abraham assumes God is testing him in a different way to see how much he loves his son. In the hope of forgiveness, Abraham rides alone to Mount Moriah and proceeds to beg for forgiveness for considering the sacrificing of Isaac. The mother conceals her breast from the child so that the child feels as though there is no mother to draw milk from. Therefore the child will never be as closer to the mother than to her breast prior to the mother and child withdrawal from each other. As originally planned everything went well, however at the very last moment Isaac sees that Abraham clenches the knife in hopelessness, where Isaac’s faith is lost. Kierkegaard retains that faith was higher than reason, which meant that reason has its limits and faith begins where those limits of reason are found. Abraham’s faith in God was a faith that God wouldn’t really make Abraham kill Isaac. If Abraham had not had enough faith, he would have refused to kill his son. Abraham’s faith allowed a teleological suspension of the