So I'm reading Kierkegaard and finding it very hard to understand exactly what he is trying to say. I am takeing a class wich helps alot and also have some other books that simplify his writings but am still having some troubles with with problema 1 from "Fear and Trembaling" Mainly where he speaks on the paradox of faith. He says that the indvidual with faith emegerges from being subordinate from the universal(ethical) and is superior in his faith but it is a paradox because he was once part of the universal? I think i may be getting this all wrong, if have a copy of the book open to problema 1 and let me know what you get out of it. I'd like to note im on some strong opiates(pill my friend gave me, not sure what type) and this stuff is still giving me a head ach.
The whole point of Kierkegaard's indirect method is that it can't easily be understood. You aren't meant to make sense of it, you're meant to feel that it is true.
