Full Idea
Kierkegaard criticise philosophy for its inability to grasp and to articulate the movement, the continual becoming, that characterises existence.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy fails to articulate the continual becoming of existence
Source
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Either/Or: a fragment of life [1843]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 2
Book Reference
Carlisle,Clare: 'Kierkegaard: guide for the perplexed' [Continuum 2006], p.37
A Reaction
Heraclitus had a go, and Hegel's historicism focuses on dynamic thought, but this idea concerns the immediacy of individual life.