FEAR AND

TREMBLING
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Nea Auxilio-Besmonte
ACTIVITY: Write o n the box what idea/feeling comes
to you upon reading the passage below:

"Work out
your own
salvation
with fear and
trembling."
(Philippians
2,12) New
Testament
Process Questions:
1. Do you believe in eternal life? Why?

2.
What are the things that you do to
ensure your place in the eternal life?

3.Will you sacrifice the most important

thing you have in life to prove your
commitment to your salvation?
 TERMS
Absolute a. an undistorted, rational view
of the truth
a
Mind ____ b. the process by which a
thesis and an opposing
d
Absurd ____ antithesis resolve
themselves into a synthesis
c. concerned with individual
c
Aesthetic ___ experience, and individual
sensory experience in
particular
Dialectic ____
b d. cannot be rationally
explained or justified in any
way
 TERMS
Double a. finds the single individual in
movement an absolute relation to the
b absolute
____
b. movement of infinite
Eternal resignation and movement
consciousnes of faith
s d ____ c. expression of the universal,
Ethical ___ where all actions are done
c publicly and for the common
good
Religious ____
a d. an awareness of one's
selfhood
 BACKGROUND

AUTHOR

Sren Kierkegaard
Bornon May 5, 1813,
in Copenhagen, Denmark

went on to pursue work as a philosopher,

publishing books like Either/Or, Stages on Life's
Way and Works of Love
critiqued much of the dominant Christian
ideology of the day and undertook ideological
explorations seen as the birth of existentialism
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Guide Questions:

1. What is the text all about?

2.
What was the writers influence in writing
the text?

3.What are the three stages of the

dialectical ladder according to the writer?
FEAR AND TREMBLING
Fear and Trembling is concerned with
the ethical and the religious.

Kierkegaard attempted to undermine

uncritical repose in the ethical, but has
sometimes been interpreted as paving
the way to nihilism.

Itis in Fear and Trembling that

Kierkegaard introduces his concept of
"faith by virtue of the absurd".
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CONTEXT
(Read an article to be distributed in class.)

Discussion
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published under pseudonym

(alias) Johannes de Silentio in
1843.

Itdeals with the biblical story of

Abraham's readiness to sacrifice,
upon God's request, the son he
waited so long to have(Gen.,22, 12).
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"Work out your own salvation with

fear and trembling."
(Philippians2,12) New Testament
FEAR AND TREMBLING

Kierkegaards Three stages of the

dialectical ladder:
Aesthetic
Ethical
Religious
 Application:
Class will be grouped into 3; each group will complete
the information for the following items.
FEAR AND
TREMBLING
AUTHOR:
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CONTEXT:
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Think about this:

In which aspect of your life can Fear

and Trembling be in connection?
Lets see how much you learn
ed, shall we?