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Fear and Trembling distinguishes resignation from faith through Johannes de Silentio’s account. Its religious demand resists conversion into general advice to follow personal conviction.
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Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 60
Becoming an individual: two challenges to inherited values
Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes de Silentio confronts a faith he cannot explain away, and Nietzsche asks how moral judgments acquired their authority. The lesson preserves their differences over what commitment demands.