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A description of a choice and the lived act of choosing raise different questions.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Set out an ethical objection to a commitment, then explain how the narrator frames that objection without endorsing it yourself.
Start here if the background is new. Equivalent experience is enough.
Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Søren Kierkegaard · book · 2014
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
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Find a copyFear and Trembling. Writing about commitment, anxiety and religious existence, often through pseudonymous voices. Attend to who is speaking and what the text leaves unresolved.
Answer this question in your own words: Can a commitment be justified entirely from the outside?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
A description of a choice and the lived act of choosing raise different questions.
What to look for
Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Søren Kierkegaard · book · 2014
Locate two passages about “Can a commitment be justified entirely from the outside” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
Library or purchase · translated by Alastair Hannay
Find a copyFear and Trembling. Writing about commitment, anxiety and religious existence, often through pseudonymous voices. Attend to who is speaking and what the text leaves unresolved.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Set out an ethical objection to a commitment, then explain how the narrator frames that objection without endorsing it yourself.
A useful response carries out the task: Set out an ethical objection to a commitment, then explain how the narrator frames that objection without endorsing it yourself. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: A pseudonymous narrator is not a transparent statement of the author’s beliefs.
A pseudonymous narrator is not a transparent statement of the author’s beliefs.
What to look for
Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Writing about commitment, anxiety and religious existence, often through pseudonymous voices. Attend to who is speaking and what the text leaves unresolved.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.