Concept
Leap of faith
Overview
In philosophy, a leap of faith is the act of believing in or accepting something not on the basis of reason. The phrase is commonly associated with Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Leap of faith
Related ideas
- Belief
- Adam and Eve
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Lutheranism
- Paradox
- Fear and Trembling
- Skepticism
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Semantics
- Circular reasoning
- Reason
- Supernatural
- C. S. Lewis
- Agency (philosophy)
- Teleology
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.