Thinking Of Either/Or’s Secret

Kierkegaard showed a concern for "the Present Age", especially the thoughts and individuals in "the Present Age". And he shaped a unique tragic individual (?)(Fellowship of the dead)’s Antigone, this has become an irony to "the Present Age" which is a reflecting and comic one, and it is also the criticism to the systemized philosophy and democracy.In this essay, I first discussed Kierkegaard’s inheritance about Aristotle’s thought of tragedy and his criticism of Hegel’s thought of tragedy, then I turned my attention to Kierkegaard’s rewrite of Sophocles’tragedy Antigone."Secret" is the kernel of (?) Antigone, in this way,(?) Antigone embodies a conflict between aesthetic and ethics."Secret" is associated with knowledge of "Recollection", which connects the individual with family and state etc., rather than makes an individual isolated in "the Present Age". Instead, holding hope is to make an individual intended to break the limits of his own existence.On this basis, this paper explored the concepts of "Recollection" and "Hope" in ancient Greek context. Hesiod, the mythological poet, first expressed his vigilance on "Hope", then "Hope" has a specific expression in Aeschylus’s tragedy Prometheus Bound, namely "(?)(techne)", and "Antigone" provided "the Greek’s poetic understanding of existence"(Heidegger). Such a return in Kierkegaard’s vision of "the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Modems" is an attempt to understand the Greek tragedy Antigone and the "Secret" of (?) Antigone more properly, as well as their association with "the Present Age".I believe that Kierkegaard’s thought of tragedy (embodies in (?) Antigone) is an ironic criticism of "the Present Age" This criticism is not only in the relation to the real existence of a single individual, but also the thought form and the state’s politics of "the Present Age", which is still a realistic inspiration for us, while this inspiration still exhibits its own inevitable limits.