Single Idea 7583

[catalogued under 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism]

Full Idea

Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity.

Gist of Idea

Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity

Source

Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Subjective')

Book Reference

Kierkegaard,Søren: 'A Kierkegaard Anthology', ed/tr. Bretall,Robert [Princeton 1946], p.210


A Reaction

The word 'highest' should always ring alarm bells. The worst sort of religious fanatics seem to be in the grip of this 'high' passion. The early twenty-first century is an echo of eighteenth century England, with its dislike of religious 'enthusiasm'.

Related Idea

Idea 16010 While faith is a passion (as Kierkegaard says), wisdom is passionless [Wittgenstein]