By C. Stephen Evans,Sylvia Walsh

ISBN-10: 0521612691

ISBN-13: 9780521612692

ISBN-10: 0521848105

ISBN-13: 9780521848107

during this wealthy and resonant paintings, Soren Kierkegaard displays poetically and philosophically at the biblical tale of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a attempt of religion. used to be Abraham's proposed motion morally and religiously justified or homicide? Is there an absolute responsibility to God? used to be Abraham justified in ultimate silent? In puzzling over those questions, Kierkegaard provides religion as a paradox that can't be understood by way of cause and standard morality, and he demanding situations the universalist ethics and immanental philosophy of contemporary German idealism, specially as represented via Kant and Hegel. This quantity, first released in 2006, offers the 1st new English translation for 20 years, via Sylvia Walsh, including an advent via C. Stephen Evans which examines the moral and non secular matters raised by means of the text.

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