*This post was copied from my original blog on Google Docs*
Kierkegaard believed that there is beauty in every individual -- every person has anxiety and fears. Why would we need to overcome something that’s a part of humans, something so unavoidable when it comes to the human condition? We have a different kind of will, which is the will to make the leap of faith. Faith is something beyond our existence, and no one can truly understand it. We’ll never be able to understand it, but we have to try to live the act of faith. What’s more important: should we advance ourselves in an earthly or eternal existence?
Here is one of the definitions of UBERMENSCH: someone who recognizes his own weakness and fallibility but puts his faith in something greater than himself. This is what Abraham achieved when he sacrificed his son. He had the strength to put himself into the unknown.
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