Kierkegaard and irony as a way of ethical life.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to take a look at Kierkegaard's understanding of Socrates. Explain what the Danish philosopher agrees with and disagrees with Hegel (including a “digression” on the conception of “dialectic” that Hegel and Plato have). We will see Kierkegaard's analysis of Socrates' Daimon, Socrates' trial and condemnation, Socrates' relationship with the sophists and with later philosophical schools. We will see the influence that Hans Lasen Martensen played on Kierkegaard through his lectures at the University of Copenhagen, Kierkegaard's response to Martensen's article on Goethe's Faust, and in Kierkegaard's two satirical works that were addressed to Martensen and his students: The conflict between the old and the new soap cellars and Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus dubitandum est. Finally, we introduce Andreas Friederich Beck, who wrote the first review of the book On the Concept of Irony, which provides a brief snapshot of contemporary assessment of the work and sheds some insight into the vision of Kierkegaard, who reacts negatively to the comments. from Beck.