Kierkegaard's Loathing

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.” This is a thought-provoking outlook on Kierkegaard’s conception of faith and the knight of faith, as it truly highlights the extent one (in this case Abraham) must go, in order to perform an absolute duty to God. However, the passage in Luke 14:26 is very much characteristic of Augustinian theological thought and expression, as one can see in the evident loathing of human existences and the emphasises on human worthlessness, (because of the belief that humans are drowned in their sins as of the original sin committed by Adam and Eve). If one was to interpret this more placidly, then rather take this reference at face value, then it may suggest that one ought to become less attached physically and emotional to objects in our existence, such as our relatives. As this may prevent one from carrying an absolute duty to God, hindering one from becoming a knight of faith. In demanding absolute love, God does not ask that we stop loving our family, Abraham loves Isaac dearly, but the ethical expression of what he does at Mount Moriah is hatred …show more content…
Søren Kierkegaard expresses this as a tautology, where this issue of Abraham being a knight of faith but in the realm of the universal ethical he is considered morally unethical and a murderer, is a formula that is true in every possible interpretation, regardless if the context may differ. One can infer from Søren Kierkegaard, that he may argue that being a single individual is the severest thing for one to be, as one is in a constant paradoxical state between faith and the universal ethical, and in turn relentlessly isolated from the universal, due to not being able to be understood by