Tugas Presentasi Truth Is Faith By Soren Kierkeegard Nama: Hendra NIM : 20191000022 Universitas Buddhi Dharma Fakultas Sains dan Teknologi Jurusan Teknik Informatika Mata Kuliah: Etika Dasar

1. TRUTH IS FAITH
by
Søren
Kierkegaard
Hendra 20191000022

2. About the author
– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), a Danish existential writer,
dedicated his life to explaining what it means to exist through
authentic choice.
– One of the author book is Fear and Trembling,

3. A Panegyric on Abraham

4. Ideas of interest from Fear and
Trembling

5. 1. How does Kierkegaard
characterize faith?
– For Kierkegaard, the typical individual moves through three stages:
(1) the æsthetic stage characterized by immediate pleasure, whether sensual or
intellectual,
(2) the ethical stage marked by the individual’s commitment to duty
(3) the religious stage characterized by faith.
For Kierkegaard, this third context of existence is truth defined as “an objective
uncertainty held fast in an appropriation process of the most passionate
inwardness is the truth, the highest truth attainable for an existing individual.”

6. Explain Kierkegaard’s distinction between the sacrifice
of money and the sacrifice of ethical responsibility. How
can this distinction be made in terms of the “most
precious possession”?
– “the most precious possession” is an indefinite expression. As one’s
thoughts, and one’s mouth, run on one assumes, in a very easy fashion.
– Example: If the rich youth whom Christ met on his way had sold all his
possessions and given all to the poor, we would extol him as we extol all
which is great, would not understand even him without labor, and yet
would he never have become an Abraham, not with standing his
sacrificing the most precious possessions he had.
– So they keep on speaking, and in the course of their speech the two
terms Isaac and “the most precious thing” are used alternately, and
everything is in the best order.

7. What could possibly be the test of faith for an Abraham of today?
Why does Kierkegaard suggest that the minister of today does not
fathom the story: “If a certain preacher learned of this he would,
perhaps, go to him, he would gather up all his spiritual dignity and ex
claim: ‘Thou abominable creature, thou scum of humanity, what devil
possessed thee to wish to murder son?’” When is “truth,” the unethical?
– this preacher, who had not felt any particular warmth,
nor perspired while speaking about Abraham, this
preacher would be astonished himself at the earnest
wrath with which he poured forth his thunders against
that poor wretch; indeed, he would rejoice over himself,
for never had he spoken with such power and unction,
and the preacher’s mistake was merely not knowing
what he was talking about.

8. What could possibly be the test of faith for an Abraham of today?
Why does Kierkegaard suggest that the minister of today does not
fathom the story: “If a certain preacher learned of this he would,
perhaps, go to him, he would gather up all his spiritual dignity and ex
claim: ‘Thou abominable creature, thou scum of humanity, what devil
possessed thee to wish to murder son?’” When is “truth,” the unethical?
– would that some poet might see his way clear to prefer
such a situation to the stuff and nonsense of which
novels and comedies are full! For the comic and the
tragic here run parallel to infinity. The sermon probably
was ridiculous enough in itself, but it became infinitely
ridiculous through the very natural consequence it had.

9. How does Kierkegaard answer his own
question, “Now how shall we explain the
contradiction contained in that sermon?”
– If this be the case I prefer not to participate in such thoughtless laudations. If
faith cannot make it a sacred thing to wish to sacrifice one’s son, then let the
same judgment be visited on Abraham as on any other man.
– The fact is, the ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he wanted to
murder Isaac; the religious, that he wanted to sacrifice him. But precisely in this
contradiction is contained the fear which may well rob one of one’s sleep.

10. In the story of the knight and the
princess, what it meant by “infinite
resignation”?
– go through a different set of movements, to-wit, those of infinity; whereas faith
does the opposite, to-wit, makes the movements to regain the finite after
having made those of infinite resignation.
– Infinite resignation is the last stage which goes before faith, so that every one
who has not made the movement of infinite resignation cannot have faith; for
only through absolute resignation do I become conscious of my eternal worth,
and only then can there arise the problem of again grasping hold of this world
by virtue of faith.