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- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophy of Spirit and Hegel’s Philosophical System
- Part II Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
- Part III Philosophy of Objective Spirit
- Part IV Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
- Chapter 10 The “Absoluteness” of Hegel’s Absolute Spirit
- Chapter 11 Art as a Mode of Absolute Spirit:
- Chapter 12 Art, Logic, and the Human Presence of Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 12 - Art, Logic, and the Human Presence of Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
from Part IV - Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2019
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophy of Spirit and Hegel’s Philosophical System
- Part II Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
- Part III Philosophy of Objective Spirit
- Part IV Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
- Chapter 10 The “Absoluteness” of Hegel’s Absolute Spirit
- Chapter 11 Art as a Mode of Absolute Spirit:
- Chapter 12 Art, Logic, and the Human Presence of Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
In this essay on Hegel’s philosophy of absolute spirit, I am going to pursue some of his most important concepts – the concept of recognition, the master/slave relationship, and the true infinite – in one of Hegel’s least-read texts, even by Hegel scholars, his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: vol. 2, Determinate Religion. Here he employs these concepts heuristically, freely, and creatively in his studies of Asian, Jewish, Greek, and Roman religions. I confine my attention in Section I of this essay to Hegel’s discussion of Greek Kunstreligion (the religion of Art and Beauty), and in Section II to the Jewish Religion of the Sublime. Hegel identifies these as religions of freedom, of the elevation of spirit over nature. Each asserts a different version of the important theme that runs throughout the history and philosophy of religion, namely, that spirit has a human presence, or, the humanity of God.
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- Hegel's Philosophy of SpiritA Critical Guide, pp. 243 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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