![]() ![]() In the world of spirit no swindling is tolerated. For instead of learning from this terror that he is not capable of performing the great deed and then plainly admitting it (an act which I cannot but approve, because it is what I do) the manikin thinks that by uniting with several other manikins he will be able to do it. ![]() This is the terrible thing which the sectarian manikin cannot endure. The knight of faith, on the contrary, is the paradox, is the individual, absolutely nothing but the individual, without connections or pretensions. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal just about as well as the beadles in The Golden Snuffbox represent justice. The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. This sectarianism is an attempt to leap away from the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a cheap price. ![]() The title is a reference to Philippians 2:12, '.continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. “The true knight of faith is always absolute isolation, the false knight is sectarian. Fear and Trembling is an influential philosophical work by Sren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (John the Silent). ![]()
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