Amir Maziar on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

Kierkegaard was in love with Regine. The passion and thirst of love had made him ill. His diary entries are full of a lover's restlessness. This love (the entire content of his life) is Kierkegaard's sole desire: to belong to Regine. This love of several years finally reaches a conclusion. The two pledge themselves to each other and from now on are accountable before the community. Now Regine belongs to him and he to Regine. The lover has attained his desire. Now ethics makes his desire his duty. (Good fortune in life is when desire coincides with duty, when my desire is my duty and vice versa.) But the engagement of the two does not last. Kierkegaard breaks the pledge and leaves Regine...

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Translator of the book Fear and Trembling: Abdolkarim Rashidian

This article is an introduction to Kierkegaard's book Fear and Trembling by Amir Maziar

Sources (Journal): Tardid, Spring 1382, No. 3

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