Fear and Trembling

Finding Your Life Path, Solved

SOLVED with Mark Manson, 2 September 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 4 min in.

Mark Manson recounts reading Fear and Trembling reluctantly in a New York philosophy book club, expecting to hate it because of its Abraham and Isaac subject matter, but being won over. He explains how Kierkegaard uses Abraham's irrational willingness to sacrifice Isaac as a metaphor for the 'religious stage'—commitment so total and faith-based it breaks into irrationality, beyond what rational cost-benefit thinking can justify. He says he loves the book.

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