Forgiveness is an expression that befits agents who are at heart morally frail and imperfect. There is strong disagreement regarding its structure, conditions, and permissibility. Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymously authored Fear and Trembling—already well understood as a challenge to our understanding of faith, religion, and the moral law through its focus on the biblical tale of Abraham's binding of Isaac—offers an indirect challenge to our understanding of forgiveness. Isaac is too often overlooked as characterless and philosophically uninteresting. What such a reading ignores is his potential expression for what Kierkegaard understood as forgiveness: a dutiful commitment to love equally. Rather than dispelling traditional accounts of forgiveness, Isaac's binding reveals the extent of its diverse expressions.

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以撒能原谅亚伯拉罕吗？

宽恕是一种适合内心道德脆弱和不完美的代理人的表达方式。关于其结构、条件和允许性存在强烈分歧。索伦·克尔凯郭尔（Soren Kierkegaard）的笔名《恐惧与颤抖》（Fear and Trembling）——通过关注亚伯拉罕捆绑以撒的圣经故事，已经被很好地理解为对我们对信仰、宗教和道德法则理解的挑战——对我们对宽恕的理解提出了间接挑战。以撒经常被忽视为缺乏个性和哲学上的无趣。这样的解读忽略了他对克尔凯郭尔所理解的宽恕的潜在表达：对平等爱的尽职承诺。以撒的约束力并没有消除传统的宽恕描述，而是揭示了其多样化表达的程度。