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B33Man88 t1_iw5ixt3 wrote

Reply to comment by Pinkfish_411 in A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd" by thelivingphilosophy

He uses his modern context to draw his conclusions. It’s misplaced. I can’t get past it to find a greater meaningful understanding of ethics. Shame on me.

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Pinkfish_411 t1_iw5mjnw wrote

Well, yeah, he's definitely using his modern context; it's a work of modern philosophy, in response to other modern philosophy (like Hegel). Again, it's not a work of biblical exegesis. It's certainly worth turning to some secondary literature to understand what he's doing there rather than getting hung up by treating it like a bad piece of Old Testament scholarship. You can pretty much bracket any scholarship on the sacrifice of Isaac because it's just beside the point.

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