A subtle reading of Fear and Trembling will reveal that the Knight of Faith is the individual who acts, and it is the acting that is important to Kierkegaard. We can untether the Knight of Faith from Kierkegaard's strongly Christian / Protestant framework rather easily and, in so doing, find something of Evola's "differentiated" man. The Knight of Faith acts, venturing everything, on the spiritual. He is not merely a theorizer, but an actor. Kierkegaard uses Abraham as an example. In the Jewish context, Abraham submitting to God's order to kill his son Isaac is about God's staying hand and the mercy to not deprive Abraham of his beloved son. However, for Kierkegaard it is not the staying hand of God that is important, but the will to act on divine command.
Nietzsche states that God is dead. Evola, takes this as true, with a slight modification, stating that the God of petty morality is dead. Evola writes that the differentiated man acts not on morality, but on self-determined will, a will that is striving for unity of Self. We can take the Knight of Faith and look at it as the individual who acts from the "Being", undisturbed by "others' weal and woe" and by the honours that may be granted to him by a society that has dissolved the traditional means of self-realisation.
If we look on the Self as predetermined "that is in a way timeless, precosmic, and prenatal, and connected with it the concept of one’s “own nature” (the Hindu svadharma, the “original face” of Far Eastern philosophy)" (Evola, Ride The Tiger), then we can justify - within limits - a certain "fidelity to oneself, self-election, and responsibility." Action, like that taken by Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith, I argue, is the way in which the essence that contains the potential realisable in human existence, it is to act out of authenticity, which leads to the "profound unity with oneself" (Evola, Ride The Tiger).
Nietzsche states that God is dead. Evola, takes this as true, with a slight modification, stating that the God of petty morality is dead. Evola writes that the differentiated man acts not on morality, but on self-determined will, a will that is striving for unity of Self. We can take the Knight of Faith and look at it as the individual who acts from the "Being", undisturbed by "others' weal and woe" and by the honours that may be granted to him by a society that has dissolved the traditional means of self-realisation.
If we look on the Self as predetermined "that is in a way timeless, precosmic, and prenatal, and connected with it the concept of one’s “own nature” (the Hindu svadharma, the “original face” of Far Eastern philosophy)" (Evola, Ride The Tiger), then we can justify - within limits - a certain "fidelity to oneself, self-election, and responsibility." Action, like that taken by Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith, I argue, is the way in which the essence that contains the potential realisable in human existence, it is to act out of authenticity, which leads to the "profound unity with oneself" (Evola, Ride The Tiger).