... intuition, but instead must be a process of reasoning which will ultimately be able to express reality as a whole, and as it truly exists. In opposition to this great task stands Kierkegaard, who under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus is concerned with dismantling any philosophical "System," and particularly that of Hegel. His attempt to construct a philosophical system to encompass all thought and reality is viewed by Kierkegaard as an ultimately doomed endeavor in that to create a philosophy from a detached standpoint would mean that the philosopher would be removed from the very same system. In his writings we can find no trace of a coherent system, because he is concerned primarily with man in the world, and as its most relevant state, the individual before god. The dialectical method which Hegel posits is viewed as limited in that it cannot transcend the physical limitations in which it is ...

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