Hegel on the Proofs and Personhood of God

Hegel on the Proofs and Personhood of God
Author: Robert R. Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 019879522X

Hegel's analysis of his culture identifies nihilistic tendencies in modernity i.e., the death of God and end of philosophy. Philosophy and religion have both become hollowed out to such an extent that traditional disputes between faith and reason become impossible because neither any longer possesses any content about which there could be any dispute; this is nihilism. Hegel responds to this situation with a renewal of the ontological argument (Logic) and ontotheology, which takes the form of philosophical trinitarianism. Hegel on the Proofs and Personhood of God examines Hegel's recasting of the theological proofs as the elevation of spirit to God and defense of their content against the criticisms of Kant and Jacobi. It also considers the issue of divine personhood in the Logic and Philosophy of Religion. This issue reflects Hegel's antiformalism that seeks to win back determinate content for truth (Logic) and the concept of God. While the personhood of God was the issue that divided the Hegelian school into left-wing and right-wing factions, both sides fail as interpretations. The center Hegelian view is both virtually unknown, and the most faithful to Hegel's project. What ties the two parts of the book together--Hegel's philosophical trinitarianism or identity as unity in and through difference (Logic) and his theological trinitarianism, or incarnation, trinity, reconciliation, and community (Philosophy of Religion)--is Hegel's Logic of the Concept. Hegel's metaphysical view of personhood is identified with the singularity (Einzelheit) of the concept. This includes as its speculative nucleus the concept of the true infinite: the unity in difference of infinite/finite, thought and being, divine-human unity (incarnation and trinity), God as spirit in his community.

Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World

Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192564935

In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "the determinate religion." This is a part of his corpus that has traditionally been neglected since scholars have struggled to understand what philosophical work it is supposed to do. In Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World, Jon Stewart argues that Hegel's rich analyses of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Egyptian and Greek polytheism, and the Roman religion are not simply irrelevant historical material, as is often thought. Instead, they play a central role in Hegel's argument for what he regards as the truth of Christianity. Hegel believes that the different conceptions of the gods in the world religions are reflections of individual peoples at specific periods in history. These conceptions might at first glance appear random and chaotic, but there is, Hegel claims, a discernible logic in them. Simultaneously, a theory of mythology, history, and philosophical anthropology, Hegel's account of the world religions goes far beyond the field of philosophy of religion. The controversial issues surrounding his treatment of the non-European religions are still very much with us today and make his account of religion an issue of continued topicality in the academic landscape of the twenty-first century.

Hegel and His Critics

Hegel and His Critics
Author: William Desmond
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780887066672

This book deals with fundamental problems in Hegel and with Hegel in relation to Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Russell, Heidegger, Husserl, Derrida, and Bataille. It reveals Hegel's power to provoke both critical and creative thought across the complete spectrum of philosophical questions.

Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel

Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
Author: Thomas A. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199595593

This study analyzes Hegel's philosophy of religion in relation to ongoing debates about the relation between religion and politics as well as the history of their conceptualization in the modern West. Lewis argues that recent non-traditional, more Kantian interpretations of Hegel's project open up a new understanding of his treatment of religion.

Hegel on Religion and Politics

Hegel on Religion and Politics
Author: Angelica Nuzzo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438445652

Critical essays on Hegel’s views concerning the relationship between religion and politics. Although scholars have written extensively on Hegel’s treatment of religion and politics separately, much less has been written about the connections between the two in his thought. Religion in Hegel’s philosophy occupies a difficult position relative to politics, existing both within the ethical and historical reality of the state and at the same time maintaining an absolute, transcendent identity. In addition, Hegel’s views on the relationship between the two were often revised and refined over time in both his written works and his lectures. His thinking on the subject, however, provides a fascinating look at an element of his practical philosophy that was as controversial in his time as it is in ours. This book highlights various approaches to this intersection in Hegel’s thought and evaluates its relevance to contemporary problems, considering issues such as religious pluralism and tolerance, conflicts between Islam and Christianity, and tensions between the secular and religious state.

Hegel on Logic and Religion

Hegel on Logic and Religion
Author: John W. Burbidge
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992-08-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791410189

A distinction often missed by Hegelian interpreters is that, for Hegel, logic functions differently when it is applied to the contingencies of nature and history. Burbidge shows that Hegel did not claim to have reached the end of history. The future is open.

Reason in Religion

Reason in Religion
Author: Walter Jaeschke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1990
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780520065185

"This book is the first to take account of the clarification in Hegel interpretation, and on these documents in particular, made possible by the entirely new critical edition. . . . Jaeschke is able to give fresh interpretations and new insights into long standing controversies in the field."--Robert R. Williams, Hiram College, Ohio

Hegel and Christian Theology

Hegel and Christian Theology
Author: Peter Crafts Hodgson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199273618

Aimed at theologians, philosophers of religion, scholars and students, Peter Hodgson provides a study of Hegel and of 19th century religious thought