Fear And Trembling Kierkegaard Analysis

Kierkegaard, Camus, and Sartre are three main philosophers that have overlapping ideas of Existentialism. Throughout Kierkegaard 's book Fear and Trembling, Camus’ book Absurd Creation, and Sartre’s book Existentialism and play No exit, the idea of the ability for one to make one’s own choices and decisions through free will is shown. These philosophers opened my eyes to a new perspective on what existence precedes essence means. While reading these books, I agreed with some ideas as opposed to others. I related with Camus’ thoughts on being able to change the way one thinks and with Sartre’s thoughts on existence preceding essence. But, I disagree with Kierkegaard 's thoughts on subjectivity and objectivity and with Sartre’s thoughts on forlornness, anguish, and despair. Because of personal beliefs, I found that I could relate these ideas to my life and to the world around me. In the first book, “The Fear and Trembling” by Kierkegaard, subjectivity and objectivity are two main ideas that are talked about. When one thinks the objective way one is trying to gain truth by eliminating the subjective way and if one thinks the subjective way one is trying to …show more content…
Within Camus’ writings he states everyone is put on this earth to find their path to their future life. He also states we should not base our actions off of what we believe. Absurd Creation challenges us to look at life through a different perspective instead of our everyday beliefs. “If God doesn’t exist, I am God (Camus, pg.106).” Camus tells us that we are in charge of our future and our actions. God does not decide for us, we do. He also tells us to remember hope is hopeless. Camus talks about how life ends with death but everything until that point is our decision. He says that people should not be bound to the idea of life after death because it is holding us back from our fullest