Discussion
Which of the following does Kierkegaard's individual of faith choose with "fear and trembling" ?
Answer: D
The keyed answer is Responsible freedom.
In Fear and Trembling (1843), Kierkegaard's 'knight of faith', modelled on Abraham, makes a lonely, inward decision before God that no rule or institution can make for him. He chooses it in fear and trembling because he must answer for it himself, without the security of universal moral rules, which is the sense of a free choice for which the individual alone is responsible.
Conventional morality is the ethical stage, the 'universal', which faith suspends in the teleological suspension of the ethical. Aesthetic pleasure is the lowest of Kierkegaard's stages of life, and doctrinal, established religion ('Christendom') is what he attacked as a substitute for genuine faith.
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