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Throughout Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard highlights the difference between a knight of faith and a tragic hero (such as how they’re perceived and what their path to greatness is like). This quote succinctly explains the fundamental difference between the two. According to Kierkegaard, a tragic hero “renounces himself in order to express the universal.” This really means that the tragic hero makes a personal sacrifice; they set aside their personal feelings, relationships, inclinations, and beliefs to do something else “to express the universal.” The ethical belongs to the universal, which is why Kierkegaard says elsewhere that the tragic hero…