Kierkegaard Faith
The essence of science is Reason. Science can be defined as the relationship between cause and effect. “It is also the supreme passion of the Reason to seek a collision, though this collision must in one way or another prove its undoing” (Kierkegaard 291). Reason seeks to understand everything objectively, through thought and logic. Science uses a method to prove something. It comes up with a hypothesis, which needs to be verified empirically and experimented, before a conclusion can be reached. According to Soren Kierkegaard, Reason has a limit, and that limit is God. He says that the existence of God cannot be proved with the help of any sort of method or system, as is used in science. One has to have faith in God without knowing that He exists. What then is God? “It is the Unknown. It is not a human being, in so far as we know what man is; nor is it any other known thing” (Kierkegaard 291).
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He has faith in God. He challenges thought and objectivity in proving the existence of God. Unlike Hegel, he feels that faith is not within the sphere of reason instead, it is like God, it cannot be objectified. It is subjective. He treats religion and morality as inward convictions rather than logical conclusions on the existence of God. “Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual’s inwardness and the objective uncertainty” (Kierkegaard 306). Faith makes one cling on to objective uncertainty. The roots of faith lie in the contradiction and risk of believing in something without knowing. The objective uncertainty is the absurd. It is something that is unknown and can only be believed. It transitions from rational thought to something that is intellectually inaccessible. If someone tries to prove the object of his faith, he realizes, after his investigations, that he no longer has faith in the object. Faith is based on the absolute paradox. It is detached from
He has faith in God. He challenges thought and objectivity in proving the existence of God. Unlike Hegel, he feels that faith is not within the sphere of reason instead, it is like God, it cannot be objectified. It is subjective. He treats religion and morality as inward convictions rather than logical conclusions on the existence of God. “Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual’s inwardness and the objective uncertainty” (Kierkegaard 306). Faith makes one cling on to objective uncertainty. The roots of faith lie in the contradiction and risk of believing in something without knowing. The objective uncertainty is the absurd. It is something that is unknown and can only be believed. It transitions from rational thought to something that is intellectually inaccessible. If someone tries to prove the object of his faith, he realizes, after his investigations, that he no longer has faith in the object. Faith is based on the absolute paradox. It is detached from