By DONETTA ALLE
Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling” will be the topic of two lectures presented by the philosophy department today and Thursday in 1080 JKHB.
Sylvia Walsh, professor of philosophy at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., specializing in the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, will present her lecture, “Dancing Lightly in the Sphere of the Religious: The Aesthetics of Faith in Kierkegaard’s ‘Fear and Trembling,'” today at noon.
Robert Perkins, chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stetson University and Kierkegaard specialist, will also present, “Abraham and the Philosophers: The Ethics of Faith and the Faith of Ethics in Kierkegaard’s ‘Fear and Trembling,'” Thursday at 11 a.m. in 1080 JKHB.
“Kierkegaard’s ‘Fear and Trembling’ explores the philosophical, theological and ethical questions raised by the commandment Abraham received to sacrifice his son,” said David Paulsen, BYU Richard L. Evans professor for religious understanding.
Walsh will speak about the way in which Kierkegaard lays out the three stages of the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious.
She will present some ideas on how we might integrate our lives religiously and aesthetically.
“The Brigham Young community would be especially interested in the concept of faith as presented by Kierkegaard,” Walsh said. “Especially, what it means to have faith.”
Walsh and Perkins, Paulsen said, “are among the foremost Kierkegaard scholars in the world.”
