THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES: KIERKEGAARD AND SOCRATIC IRONY IN PLATO'S APOLOGY

This article aims to show a reading of Kierkegaard on Socrates. To the Danish philosopher, irony is a deeper element of Socrates, that not only connects with his method, but also with his own philosophy: that is the negative as a philosophical point of view. Thus, the reading of Kierkegaard, shows us all Socratic philosophy as nothing but irony. The author seeks to explicit under what atmosphere, according to which fundamental pathology, walked the Greek philosopher, to understand their attitude and thinking. Irony is a form of negativity, as the questioning method exhausts the contents toward the abstract, conceptually empty. And the Apology, written by Plato, will be the most appropriate text for such research.