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Question:Another way to phrase it:

Hegel was claiming a final system, based upon an absolute starting point.

SK disputed both. The former, as a kind of generalized oversimplification, so encompassing as to be open-ended, i.e., any outcome is possible, within the terms.

The latter, a kind of Self-evident claim, is likewise open-ended, so general as to be tautologically "Self-serving."

Both of these Hegelian positions stem from present and predicted Immanence, "God with us." Kierkegaard preferred a kind of distance between Presence and human, hence, Hegel's final systematic and initial Gnosis would be presumptively epistemologically unacceptable within SK's psychologistic perspective.

"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov, and
"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet, are interesting.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Another way to phrase it:

Hegel was claiming a final system, based upon an absolute starting point.

SK disputed both. The former, as a kind of generalized oversimplification, so encompassing as to be open-ended, i.e., any outcome is possible, within the terms.

The latter, a kind of Self-evident claim, is likewise open-ended, so general as to be tautologically "Self-serving."

Both of these Hegelian positions stem from present and predicted Immanence, "God with us." Kierkegaard preferred a kind of distance between Presence and human, hence, Hegel's final systematic and initial Gnosis would be presumptively epistemologically unacceptable within SK's psychologistic perspective.

"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov, and
"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet, are interesting.

Theory based on hypothesis as a proved fact.Thesis under controlled and non-controlled factors which can alter the ending results. ?Repositories?