Soren Kierkegaard

In Praise of Abraham and Faith | Søren Kierkegaard | *Philosophers, Explained* | Professor Stephen Hicks

Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian […]

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Kierkegaard’s lesson: Abraham as a model of faith

Stephen Hicks here discusses Kierkegaard’s interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. This is from Part 3 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: The story of Abraham.Next: Educational Implications: Choose your hero–Semmelweis or Abraham?Return to the Philosophy of Education page.Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.

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