An idea from Fear and Trembling

A madman who hears a voice fits the same shape, and the narrator admits it: if the man misheard God, nothing can save him. Kant had already said Abraham should have doubted the voice. Buber and Levinas later warned that this reasoning can excuse killing in God’s name.

From Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

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