Fear and Trembling

Johannes de Silentio Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Fear and Trembling argues that the knight of faith is the paradox is the individual absolutely nothing but the individual without connections or pretensions. The knight of faith is the individual who is able to gracefully embrace life: Kierkegaard put it this way in Either/Or When around one everything has become silent solemn as a clear starlit night when the soul comes to be alone in the whole world then before one there appears not an extraordinary human being but the eternal power itself then the heavens open and the I chooses itself or more correctly receives itself. Then the personality receives the accolade of knighthood that ennobles it for an eternity.