WHAT ABOUT ISAAC?: Rereading Fear and Trembling and Rethinking Kierkegaardian Ethics

In this essay I offer a reading of Fear and Trembling that responds to critiques of Kierkegaardian ethics as being, as Brand Blanshard claims, “morally nihilistic,” as Emmanuel Levinas contends, ethically violent, and, as Alasdair MacIntyre charges, simply irrational. I argue that by focusing on Isa...

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Main Author: Simmons, J. Aaron (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2007
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 319-345
Further subjects:B ordeal
B Singularity
B Ethics
B Kierkegaard
B Levinas
B Hegel
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