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      <name><![CDATA[Søren Kierkegaard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[dear reader,<br/><br/>you don't even read this stuff anymore, do you?! i wouldn't if i were you! but that's the difference between me and you! you have no life, are pathetic, sit in front of your computer all day stalking your peers on various social networking sites, while i go on constantly mock...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6201823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this piece in a philosophy class devoted entirely to Kierkegaard.  At the time I wasn't overly enthralled with his work.  I think I was partly turned off by the know it all sophomore in the graduate level class who insisted on being smack dab in the middle and dominating every conversat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22717739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was going to write that I still come back to this book, even ten years after reading it for the first time. But that's not quite true. What is true is that this book has never really left me; it has worked itself into my psyche and become an automatic philosophical reference point for my life. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2064854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read much philosophy (possibly because I am too dumb) but a lot of what Kierkegaard says in <em>Fear and Trembling</em> really resonates with me. I love his concept of Knights of Faith and Knights of Resignation, and his multiple views Abraham on top of Moria is possibly the first ever &quot;Five Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1982162">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most powerful examinatons of religious faith I have ever read.  <br/><br/>It is written deeply, beautifully, disturbingly.  It will give you an emotional tumble, a mental workout, and a spiritual shake.<br/><br/>This is the kind of thing they keep a thousand miles from Sunday school. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15672827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14883530">
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    <body><![CDATA[Kierkegaard is an intense read, but profound. I fell in love with him when I was going through a reorganization of my faith. In this book he presents the idea of the &quot;knight of faith&quot; -- the one who stands alone in direct relation to God, beyond the safety of a creed or institution. He use...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14883530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faith picks up where thinking leaves off. This is of course the same sentiment lamented by those frustrated with religion; Christianity, they say, creates pews of people who have given up thinking. Faith can not be described with logic, following a proof of steps from action to action. Like CS Lewis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74688759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1551635">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has great stuff in it, but it is a little inacessible.  If you have the time, check out these leactures which do a great job of explaining it... <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978306" title="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978306">http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_detai...</a><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="1749214">
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    <body><![CDATA[Keirkegaard is one of my favorite philosophers.  He is so thought-provoking.  I always have a fun time reading him.  Please remember that agreeing with a writer is not the basis for my enjoying his/her writing.]]></body>
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    <review id="64201380">
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    <body><![CDATA[The theme of the book comes down to what, I think, is the clearest and most concise statement in the entire work.  &quot;Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off.&quot;  It could only be through such faith and sophistry that one could uphold Abraham as an example of what faith can accomplish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64201380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59354430">
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    <body><![CDATA[Abraham is the greatest, says Kierkegaard, and “the highest passion in a human being is faith”(Kierkegaard 144). This is wrong. Christ is greatest, and though faith, hope and love endure, “the greatest of these is love”(1 Corinthians 13:13). For this reason, I find Kierkegaard’s method in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59354430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a philosophical treatise on faith through analyzing the narrative of Abraham and Isaac, particularly God's request of Isaac's sacrifice.  This was one of the most enjoyable books of philosophy I have ever read, but a part of me wonders if I'm simply more open to reading philosophy now than I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30699693">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fear and Trembling is a powerful work of philosophy and literature.  Kierkegaard, as Johannes de Silentio, uses Abraham, specifically the story of he and Isaac, to describe, but not explain, the concept of faith.<br/><br/>Why no explanation?  Because Kierkegaard (or Johannes, as it were), candidly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29484399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28489970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellently written and impeccably argued book about the biblical story of Abraham's willingness to kill his son Isaac because God &quot;told&quot; him to.  This tract focuses on the absurdity of faith and emphasizes that Abraham's willingness to do something that is by all accounts uneth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4718776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. What do I say about Fear and Trembling? The ideas and &quot;problemas&quot; that Kierkegaard conceives of in this book are incredibly innovative. They spring out of an extreme passion and love of the idea of &quot;faith&quot;. In this book Kierkegaard uses the ultimate paradigm of faith, the bi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1821430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ -- &quot;You, to whom my speech is addressed, was that the case with you? When you saw, far off, the heavy fate approaching, did you not say to the mountains, 'hide me,' to the hills, 'fall on me'? Or if you were stronger, did your feet nevertheless not drag along the way? Did they not hanker, as i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70140377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Difficult read, for the most part.  However, Kierkegaard's discussion of faith, as an existentialist of the 1850's is fascinating!  In Fear and Trembling, Kiekegaard discusses the Biblical account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac as a demonstration of perfect faith and what all is entailed in that.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45174927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tedious, deep and dark. At the time I remember it sounded really cool, but looking back I was probably more interested because Kierkegaard seemed like such a dark, morbid, tortured soul. He must have been the 19th century equivalent of goth. Well, whatever. <br/><br/>He explores the Abraham's dept...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39027746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kierkegaard is ahead of most apologists in that he seems to honestly deal with thorny issues without the a whole lot of bullshit. This one is particularly interesting, exploring the question of whether morality and religion are incommensurable, focusing on the story of Abraham. While most religious ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39974350">more...</a>]]></body>
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