`One of the most obvious ways Kierkegaard draws from Hegel is in his use of modified Hegelian dialectic.  Sometimes he mocks this method or uses it against Hegel, and certainly he employs it in different ways than Hegel did, but he nonetheless uses this distinctly Hegelian method for positive purposes all through his work.  In Fear and Trembling, faith is described as a sort of synthesis of the aesthetic and the ethical.  The ethical individual, transcends the aesthetic, abandons its ``silence`` in favor of disclosure and abandons its hope that its desires will be fulfilled in favor of quiet resignation.  The religious individual, the knight of faith, transcends this state, but like the aesthetic individual is silent, and believes that he will receive what he desires.  The ordinary person gets finitude, his finite desires; the knight of resignation gives that up for infinity, but the knight of faith gets both.  Similarly, in The Present Age, Kierkegaard argues that what is needed is a synthesis of reflection and passion.  These ideas are very clearly influenced by Hegel's concept of dialectical synthesis.    `