Are You a Socratic Irony?

I don't have enough of a sense of what irony really means and how it works. I think one classical view of irony is just saying one thing and meaning another. Then there's dramatic irony, which is with people's expectations and doing something surprising. Soi i'm going to be relentlessly and naively earnest about the possibility of full human development. There's more going on if you're doing it deliberately, and there's moregoing on if you enjoy it and relish it and contemplate it. Both plato and augustine are aiming for a kind of aspirational vision of fulfilment in their philosophy. Am, you can also take that as a useful fantasy, if you'd