The knight of faith is an individual who has placed complete faith in himself and in God. The 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard vicariously discusses the knight of faith in several of his pseudonymic works, with the most in-depth and detailed critique exposited in Fear and Trembling.

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  • The knight of faith is an individual who has placed complete faith in himself and in God. The 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard vicariously discusses the knight of faith in several of his pseudonymic works, with the most in-depth and detailed critique exposited in Fear and Trembling. Johannes de Silentio, Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Fear and Trembling, argues that the knight of faith is the paradox, is the individual, absolutely nothing but the individual, without connections or pretensions. The knight of faith is the individual who is able to gracefully embrace life:
  • Uskon ritari on Søren Kierkegaardin filosofiassa henkilö, joka on laittanut uskon kokonaisuudessaan itseensä ja Jumalaan. Uskon ritari on esimerkki henkilöstä, joka määrittää itse oman olemassaolonsa luonteen. Täten uskon ritari vertautuu mm. Friedrich Nietzschen yli-ihmiseen. Kierkegaard käsitteli ajatusta useissa teoksissaan, laajimmin ja yksityiskohtaisimmin teoksessaan Pelko ja vavistus.
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  • Fear and Trembling, 1843
  • Johannes de Silentio
  • Most people live dejectedly in worldly sorrow and joy; they are the ones who sit along the wall and do not join in the dance. The knights of infinity are dancers and possess elevation. They make the movements upward, and fall down again; and this too is no mean pastime, nor ungraceful to behold. But whenever they fall down they are not able at once to assume the posture, they vacillate an instant, and this vacillation shows that after all they are strangers in the world. This is more or less strikingly evident in proportion to the art they possess, but even the most artistic knights cannot altogether conceal this vacillation. One need not look at them when they are up in the air, but only the instant they touch or have touched the ground–then one recognizes them. But to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian–that only the knight of faith can do–and this is the one and only prodigy.
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  • The knight of faith is an individual who has placed complete faith in himself and in God. The 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard vicariously discusses the knight of faith in several of his pseudonymic works, with the most in-depth and detailed critique exposited in Fear and Trembling.
  • Uskon ritari on Søren Kierkegaardin filosofiassa henkilö, joka on laittanut uskon kokonaisuudessaan itseensä ja Jumalaan. Uskon ritari on esimerkki henkilöstä, joka määrittää itse oman olemassaolonsa luonteen. Täten uskon ritari vertautuu mm. Friedrich Nietzschen yli-ihmiseen. Kierkegaard käsitteli ajatusta useissa teoksissaan, laajimmin ja yksityiskohtaisimmin teoksessaan Pelko ja vavistus.
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  • Knight of faith
  • Uskon ritari
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