Risk, of course, requires some objective uncertainty, Climacus says, “for without risk, no faith; the more risk, the more faith; the more objective reliability, the less inwardness (since inwardness is subjectivity); the less objective reliability, the deeper is the possible inwardness” (CUP I, 209). Climacus’s sentiments are echoed throughout Kierkegaard’s work in his critique of speculative philosophy’s quest for certainty.
