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For Hegel God's essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself

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For Hegel God’s essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself

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God is this: not merely to be in himself, but to be just as essentially for himself. That God is spirit consists in this: that he is not only the essence that maintains itself in thought but also the essence that appears, the essence that endows itself with revelation and objectivity (Gegenständlichkeit). Although we consider the idea of God this way in the philosophy of religion, we at the same time also have before us the mode of God’s representation. God represents only himself and does so only to himself (er stellt sich nur vor und stellt sich selber vor sich). This is the aspect of the being-there (Dasein) of the absolute. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815

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  • DEFINE: Core definition of God as spirit: appearance and objectivity belong to God’s being, not just consciousness.
  • XREF: Preparatory to the reader’s plasticity project — the structure of withdrawal/being-for-itself in God is a self-relation like the plastic subject’s. — connects to: God’s self-gaze is the model for all speculative self-presentation in Hegel. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 854; God’s self-knowledge occurs through human self-consciousness and knowledge of God — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 656; Divine self-identity already contains differentiation within itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 663 (+5 more)

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