Having an idea has nothing at all to do with the idea itself.
The incredible distance between Hegel and Kierkegaard’s attempts to define self is very obvious here. While they both appear to be existentialists, the difference between their rationale is the exact distance between chaos and order (enlightenment). There is a gap between Hegel’s cause and effect. Very few human minds can as yet accept with certainty the universal truth that to have is to be. Yet this is what enlightenment is.
It is finally the only manner that death can awaken to eternity.
