The Importance of Transcendence in History

We exist before we have discovered this essence about who and what we are. Kierkegaard is pointing out that this system, for all of its grandeur, is in a very deep sense like Socrates found with the original natural philosophers. It is profound truths that have no existential transformative relevance. You cannot find in Hegel how to cultivate wisdom; you can only find a theoretical structure for interpreting history.