Kierkegaard's Irony In King Lear

So much about how Kierkegaard inspires Lear to give such a great importance to irony. Let us now turn at how he concretely conceives the experience of irony. In this regard, the rest of Kierkegaard’s journal entry has once again particular relevance. There, Kierkegaard asks himself in what did Socrates' irony really lie. His answer is that Socratic irony does not lie in virtuous talking. Instead, '[…][Socrates] whole existence is and was irony; whereas the entire contemporary population of farm hands and business men and so on […] were perfectly sure of being human and knowing what it means to be a human being, Socrates […] occupied himself with the problem – what does it mean to be a human being? […] Socrates doubted that one is a human being