FTP name this proto- existentialist treatise by Soren Kierkegaard which examines the story of Abraham and Isaac.
Among the various mythic and biblical stories which serve as examples in this philosophical work is the tale of Agnete and the merman, through which the author explicates what he sees as the conflict between aesthetics and ethics. More centrally, the comparisons of Tobit and Agamemnon with the main character serve to illustrate the difference between the tragic hero, the knight of faith, whose choice to embrace a paradox poses Johannes de Silentio's greatest challenge to Hegelian ethics. FTP name this proto- existentialist treatise by Soren Kierkegaard which examines the story of Abraham and Isaac.
Among the various mythic and biblical stories which serve as examples in this philosophical work is the tale of Agnete and the merman, through which the author explicates what he sees as the conflict between aesthetics and ethics.
{Fear and Trembling}