/lit/ - Literature

>>10421627
This is the one I read

My first time reading Kierkegaard and I'm in love

On Kierkegaard's Fear & Trembling, he writes of the Knight of Faith that he

"knows it is beautiful and benign to be the particular that translates himself into the universal, the one who so to speak makes a clear and elegant edition of himself, as immaculate as possible, and readable for all; he knows it is refreshing to become intelligible to oneself in the universal, so that he understands the universal and everyone that understands him understands the universal in turn, and both rejoice in the security of the universal... But he also knows that higher up there winds a lonely path, narrow and steep; he knows it is terrible to be born in solitude outside the universal, to walk without meeting a single traveler."

Explain the beauty that the Knight of Faith recognizes in the universal and the solitude that he finds in Faith. How does Kierkegaard justify this beauty and solitude guys?

I guess only for people who have read this piece of literature.