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Ideas for Georg W.F.Hegel, Henry E. Kyburg Jr and Porphyry

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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

22782	To have pagan beliefs and be a pagan are quite different [Hegel]
	Full Idea: To believe in pagan religion and to be a pagan are two different things.
	From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 147)
	A reaction: A nice general truth about all religions, and one not often understood by atheists.

22793	Some religions lead to harsh servitude and the debasement of human beings [Hegel]
	Full Idea: It should not be a forgotten that can take on a from which leads to the harshest servitude within the fetters of superstition, and to the debasement of human beings to a level below that of animals.
	From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 270)
	A reaction: Hegel was a Christian, though a very unorthodox one. He cities ancient Egypt and India as examples. If you want to assess a religion, see how it behaves when it has political power.

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

21797	Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel]
	Full Idea: The immortality of the soul must not be imagined as though it first emerges into actuality at some later time; rather it is a present quality. ...As pure knowing or as thinking, Spirit has the universal for its object - this is eternity.
	From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion [1827], III: 208), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 10 'Death'
	A reaction: An unusual view of immortality, which challenges orthodoxy. The idea seems to be that 'pure knowing' is a grasping of the pure reason which embodies nature, which in turn is the nature of God. You enter eternity, rather than reside in it?

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

18449	Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry]
	Full Idea: Nature binds the body to the soul, but it is the soul herself that has bound herself to the body. It, therefore, belongs to nature to detach the body from the soul, while it is the soul herself that detaches herself from the body.
	From: Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 1Enn9 2)
	A reaction: Baffling. What happens if there is a conflict? I suppose either party can cancel the bargain, but who wins when they disagree?

18457	Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry]
	Full Idea: Individual souls are distinct without being separated from each other, and without dividing the universal Soul into a number of parts; they are united to each other without becoming confused.
	From: Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 6Enn4 39)
	A reaction: This sounds like Jung's theory that there is a universal subconscious which links us all together. Taken literally, I assume it is nonsense. As an invitation to acknowledge how much we all have in common, it is a nice corrective to liberal individualism.