El concepto de espera en Dos discursos edificantes de 1843

Abstract

According to Kierkegaard in Two Edifying Discourses, faith is the waiting for something more. This waiting has to do with the future and the opening of possibilities and it avoids despair. The human capacity of worrying is notable, for it is only by looking towards future that the present is recovered; looking towards future implies fighting oneself, not as with looking to the present, which implies to fight something specific. The future, because of its being indeterminate, can be frightening, and only what is eteral can defeat the future. The eternal force of the human being is faith; the waiting of faith is the victory and there is no room for dissapointment in it, for faith is not placed in the world, but in God, who does not dissapoint, who gives divine consolation.