Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Like many philosophers, he took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of Christianity into account in his philosophizing. This book presents anexamination, interpretation and critical engagement with Hegel's philosophy of religion, and with his concept of God in particular. William Desmond explores the distinctive stresses of Hegel's approach to God, the influence it has exerted, and the fundamental problems that his approach exhibits.
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A welcome appraisal and criticism of Hegel's philosophy of religion,
This review is from: Hegel's God: A Counterfeit Double? (Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology) (Paperback)
This text is not intended as an introduction to Hegel, and as such the author assumes the reader has a certain familiarity with Hegel and Hegelian themes. For any reader who has made either a personal or academic study of Hegel's texts, however, this is a thouroughly insightful book. Without many lengthy quotations or detailed analyses of particular Hegelian texts, Desmond argues the importance of the question of God within Hegel's thought and then explores whether the philosophical tools offered by Hegel provide a sufficient answer.
Once Desmond turns to specific themes in Hegelian and Christian thought, discussing one theme per chapter, the text does become slightly redundant. However, the purpose is to show that in many places Hegelian thought simply cannot do justice to religious conceptions of God. As such, redundancy becomes a part of the argument: Desmond does not find a technicality on which to fault Hegel, he finds the entire edifice to be lacking. The reader would be well advized to read volume one of Hegel's lectures on the Philosophy of Religion before picking up this text.
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While Hegel is not taken with the same seriousness in Anglo-American philosophy as in Continental thought, he is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire philosophical tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agapeic origin, erotic sovereignty, demiurgic making, empty indeterminacy, erotic absolute, third transcendence, radical equivocity, erotic metaphorics, infinite inwardness, hand that wounds, immanent otherness, infinite restlessness, holistic logic, hand that heals, agapeic love, consummate religion, immanent whole, speculative dialectic, conatus essendi, radical intimacy, finite creation, philosophical knowing, own otherness, absolute knowing, immanent life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition - The Lectures of 1827 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on 24 pages
- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 7 pages
- The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 5 pages
- Early Theological Writings (Works in Continental Philosophy) by G. W. F. Hegel on 5 pages
- Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy) by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel on 4 pages
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