Hegel's Irony

“It seems, however, that Hegel makes the Sophistic movement too grandiose, and therefore the distrust one may have about the correctness of his view (…)”. (KIERKEGAARD, S. The Concept of Irony, 1992, p.207). “Thus in Hegel's discussion of Plato's system there appear various loosely scattered remarks claiming to be absolute because the whole context in which they would have manifested themselves in their relative truth (but therefore all the more justified) is destroyed”. (KIERKEGAARD, S. The Concept of Irony, 1992, p.222). “Thus, when Hegel's whole examination of Socratic irony ends in such a way that Socratic irony becomes identified with Platonic irony (…)”. (KIERKEGAARD, S. The Concept of Irony, 1992, p.267). He Hegel is giving an objective direction for
He shows that Socrates was deservedly condemned to death, that his crime was refusing to recognize the sovereignty of the nation and asserting instead his subjective conviction over against the objective judgment of the state”. (KIERKEGAARD, S. The Concept of Irony, 1992, p.193). “The spirit of this people (Athenians) in itself, its constitution, its whole life, rested, however, on a moral ground, on religion, and could not exist without this absolutely secure basis”. (HEGEL, G.W.F. Lectures on the History of Philosophy, 1892, p.426). “He was and remained a midwife; not because he ‘lacked the positive’ but because he understood that this was the highest relationship one person could have to another. And in this he is eternally correct”. (Philosophical crumbs, p. 89). “Thus it is characterized in our age where one has the positive sort of like a polytheist disparaging the negativity of monotheism because polytheism has many gods, monotheism only one. Philosophers have many thoughts, each of which is to a certain extent valid. Socrates only one, which is absolute”. (KIERKEGAARD, S. Philosophical crumbs, 2009, p. 89, notes