Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Kierkegaard H1-Group 2
Today we had a short discussion on Kierkegaard. He basically questioned faith vs. morals. We talked about the story of Abraham and Issac. Abraham was told by God to offer Issac up to him as a sacrifice. As the story goes, Abraham had the faith and started to do as he was asked. Once God saw that his faith was unfailing, he sent a lamb trapped in a bush for Abraham to use in place of his son. He was rewarded for his faith. As we see it, it would be humanly wrong to sacrifice your own child, but it you relied on faith, it would not be wrong to sacrifice your child to God. Some things might seem wrong on human terms, but might actually be right in faith.
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One of my favorite authors is C. S. Lewis, and he has a very thought provoking view on morality and its position in life:
ReplyDelete"Mere morality is not the end of life. You were made for something quite different from that. … The people who go on asking if they can’t lead a decent life without Christ don’t know what life is about; if they did they would know that ‘a decent life’ is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for. Morality is indispensable; but the Divine Life, which gives itself to us and which calls us to be gods, intends for us something in which morality will be swallowed up. We are to be re-made."
So, is life all about morality and helping those around us, or trying to twist morality to help ourselves?
FQ: Who compared morality against pleasure-seeking in his book titled Either/Or?
I agree with what you said Mason. Many times humans will try to twist situations to make morality be in their favor. Sometimes we just need to have faith, even if we don't like the outcome at the time. We never know how a situation might turn out until we take the "leap of faith".
ReplyDeleteDQ: What is a leap of faith?