... absurd, and by having faith in the absurd, one can recover what was lost. Kierkegaard wrote writes about the "teleological suspension of the ethical", that is, the suspension of the moral law for the sake of a higher law. To a "normal" person, Abraham attempts murder. Through the eyes of faith, he is obeying God. He inverted the Hegelian dialectic by seeking to make everything more difficult. Instead of seeing scientific knowledge as the means of human redemption, he regarded it ... as the greatest obstacle to redemption. Instead of seeking to give people more knowledge ... ...

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