The paradox arises from our inability to surrender completely, to completely trust our faith. When humans decide to act to protect their gods, they are only manifesting their lack of trust in god as well as their belief that they have to act to protect the divine.

Spirituality and religion can be hard to tell apart but there are some pretty defined differences between the two. Religion is a specific set of organised beliefs and practices, usually shared by a community or group. Spirituality is more of an individual practice and has to do with having a sense of peace and purpose.

In Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for. Meaning,2 Fowler describes the most generic and most profound process. of being human, the process of meaning-making, as faith. Faith, in his. conception, is therefore often but not necessarily religious.

Paradox. The paradox in Fear and Trembling deals essentially with the contradiction inherent in the religious. The religious states that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the finite is higher than the infinite, that one must make the leap of faith by virtue of the absurd.

Again, the most distinguishing difference between the knight of faith and the knight of infinite resignation is that the knight of infinite resignation has only made the first half of the paradoxical double movement. Abraham’s movement of resignation was obeying the command to sacrifice Isaac.

Abraham, who was willing to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac at God’s request, is one example of a “knight of faith,” which is a person who has moved past infinite resignation by sacrificing (or, in Abraham’s case, by being willing to sacrifice) the thing that is most precious to them, while simultaneously believing …

What is difference between the knight of faith and tragic hero, and is one actually better than the other? A knight of faith is someone like Abraham, whereas the tragic hero is one who gives himself over to the ethical and universal rather than faith, and is willing to lose what he values most.

The Absurd, or to act by virtue of the absurd, is to act upon faith I must act, but reflection has closed the road so I take one of the possibilities and say: This is what I do, I cannot do otherwise because I am brought to a standstill by my powers of reflection.

Meursault is the absurdist, explaining the philosophy of existentialism: Man’s isolation among an indifferent universe. There is no inherent meaning in life – its entire value lies in living itself. Meursault feels he has been happy, and longs to live.

The simple answer is we do not know. But irrespective of whether or not Meursault does have a capacity for love, there is little doubt that he does not display much in the way of loving behavior toward anyone, at least not in the conventional sense.

The Importance of the Physical World The Stranger shows Meursault to be interested far more in the physical aspects of the world around him than in its social or emotional aspects. This focus on the sensate world results from the novel’s assertion that there exists no higher meaning or order to human life.

In The Stranger, the sun represents the indifference of the universe. It is the sun shining in his eyes that allegedly motivates Meursault to murder the Arab man.

Heat symbolizes the indifference of the universe towards human life. The sun’s blazing intensity without regard for bodily comfort or peace of mind stands for the general disregard the natural world has for humanity.

TLDR; The sun symbolizes the complete indifference of a universe into which we are born through no will of our own, and which will go on as heedless of our deaths as it was of the comforts and discomforts we experienced in life. The Stranger may be best known for its abundance of sensory detail.

Hover for more information. The trip to the sea represents change in Meursault’s life. This change is a deviation to his normal routine, which will put him under the influence of others. The reason that the sea is chosen is that it in itself represents chanage.