Before you say, "WTF?", I shall explain what the hell this is the best I can. Anyone familiar with the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard? He writes in "Fear and Trembling", that Abraham's attempt to sacrifice his son Isaac was a "teleological suspension of the ethical". Telos, is Greek for end.

In a nut shell, he is asking was it ethical to sacrifice his son, despite the ethics of killing and God's law against it? If God has declared that murder is unethical, why did God order Abraham to kill his son?

You must consider as well He agrees that the universal (everything) is the same as the ethical. Yet faith could go beyond the ethical, in which Abraham has become the particular because he goes against the ethical to keep his faith in God. The particular is in a way a paradox.

Now, I relate this to the Iraq War. Should we have suspended the ethical in order to invade? Does ethics still apply here?

My conclusion is that yes, there was a teleological suspension of the ethical when the US invaded.
Anubis10012007 Reviewed by Anubis10012007 on . Is the Iraq War a "teleological suspension of the ethical"? Before you say, "WTF?", I shall explain what the hell this is the best I can. Anyone familiar with the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard? He writes in "Fear and Trembling", that Abraham's attempt to sacrifice his son Isaac was a "teleological suspension of the ethical". Telos, is Greek for end. In a nut shell, he is asking was it ethical to sacrifice his son, despite the ethics of killing and God's law against it? If God has declared that murder is unethical, why did God order Abraham Rating: 5