Status Updates From Bázeň a chvění / Nemoc k smrti

This man can’t decide what’s right! Needs to mind a certain book with a history that predates him, maybe something with a religious aspect…

"The genuinely humane no generation learns from the [foregoing generation]. In this respect every generation begins primitively, has no different task from that of the previous... the highest passion in a man is faith, and here no generation begins at any other point than did the previous... There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach [faith], but no one gets further."

"The genuinely humane no generation learns from the [foregoing generation]. In this respect every generation begins primitively, has no different task from that of the previous... the highest passion in a man is faith, and here no generation begins at any other point than did the previous... There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach [faith], but no one gets further."

Problem III is a thoroughly confusing section, I think in part bc I need to review some of the myths he is referencing, but also partially bc I feel like he hasn’t defined his terms all that well in the specific senses in which he is using them. I’m telling you right now, I’m gonna have to reread this part after getting some better context. Annoying, since this is the final section.

Problem II was challenging... Kierkegaard's claim is that the believer is by necessity "incomprehensible" to others (in the way that Abraham was incomprehensible to others when he went to sacrifice Isaac). I'm still processing this but I think his argument holds up, and it's a scary thought.