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Single Idea 21775
[filed under theme 28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God
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Full Idea
God is attainable in pure speculative knowledge alone and is only in that knowledge, and is only that knowledge itself, for He is Spirit; and this speculative knowledge is the knowledge of revealed religion.
Gist of Idea
The God of revealed religion can only be understood through pure speculative knowledge
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], p.461), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 04 'Absolute'
Book Ref
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.100
A Reaction
If you were hoping to find out why Hegel believed in God, I fear this is the best evidence available. He is evidently opposed to natural theology. Hegel's language makes it very hard to grasp how we sees the nature of God.
The
28 ideas
from 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
21776
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Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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22035
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The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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15611
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I develop philosophical science from the simplest appearance of immediate consciousness
[Hegel, by Hegel]
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21774
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Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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21773
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Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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22033
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Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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20741
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Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts
[Hegel, by Aho]
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5647
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Hegel claims knowledge of self presupposes desire, and hence objects
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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5648
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For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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22034
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Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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21987
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History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom
[Hegel]
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6917
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God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker
[Hegel, by Feuerbach]
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6915
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Hegel made the last attempt to restore Christianity, which philosophy had destroyed
[Hegel, by Feuerbach]
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21770
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Consciousness is both of objects, and of itself
[Hegel]
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21771
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Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being
[Hegel]
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22082
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Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons
[Hegel]
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21775
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The God of revealed religion can only be understood through pure speculative knowledge
[Hegel]
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8927
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Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality
[Hegel]
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8928
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The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited
[Hegel]
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8929
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In the Absolute everything is the same
[Hegel]
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7077
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The true is the whole
[Hegel]
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8930
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The in-itself must become for-itself, which requires self-consciousness
[Hegel]
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8931
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The movement of pure essences constitutes the nature of scientific method
[Hegel]
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8932
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Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions
[Hegel]
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8933
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Science confronts the inner necessities of objects
[Hegel]
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8934
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Being is Thought
[Hegel]
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8935
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Without philosophy, science is barren and futile
[Hegel]
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8936
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Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds
[Hegel]
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