“the single individual” before God.176 Therefore, such attempts at greatness by an individual’s own efforts is possible for an unbeliever like Climacus, but utterly antithetical to Kierkegaard the Christian. A casual (mis-)reading of the earlier pseudonymous works177 can lead to an emphasis on “the single individual” as being apart from societal conventions, but to remain here is to miss the point of Kierkegaard’s authorship as a whole.178
This is particularly the case with the work by the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio. This pseudonym was likely created by Kierkegaard to be a person who believed in God, but such a knowledge was primarily through the ethical.179 This is why he repeatedly states that he cannot understand Abraham; from his own human capacity (i.e., without the eyes of faith), he elevates Abraham to be an unreachable figure, far above the possibility of emulation by others.180 Such a presentation can therefore lend a casual surface-level reader to dismiss the story as an irrelevant impossibility.
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