"What Socrates himself prized so highly, namely, standing still and contemplating – in other words, silence – this is his whole life in terms of world history. He has left nothing by which a later age can judge him; indeed, even if I were to imagine myself his contemporary, he would still always be difficult to comprehend. He belonged to the breed of persons with whom the outer as such is not the stopping point. The outer continually pointed to something other and opposite. He is not like a philosopher delivering his opinions in such a way that just the lecture itself is the presence of the idea, but what Socrates said means something different. p. 12"
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On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates), was Soren Kierkegaard's 1841 thesis for graduation from the University of Copenhagen. The book was translated and edited by Howard and Edna Hong in 1989.
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