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Hegel maps Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection onto the S-P-U syllogism of determinate being.

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aliases@malabou_future_2005, loc. 670

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Hegel maps Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection onto the S-P-U syllogism of determinate being.

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The moment of the Spirit, or singularity, is articulated in three syllogisms. … The first syllogism contains Christology proper, meaning Incarnation, Death and Resurrection. Its movement corresponds to the articulation of the qualitative syllogism or syllogism of ‘being-there’ (Schluß des Daseins), presented in the Encyclopedia Science of Logic: ‘The first syllogism is the syllogism of being-there or qualitative syllogism, … S–P–U: that a subject as something singular is concluded with a universal determinacy through a quality.’ … The middle term of this syllogism is immediate particularity, the particularity of ‘sensuous existence’. The minor premiss (S–P) is the individual self-consciousness of Christ (S), posited in the natural element of temporal existence (P). This is the Incarnation: ‘The universal substance is actualized out of its abstraction into an individual [singular] self-consciousness …, in the eternal sphere he is called the Son, and is transplanted into the world of time (in die Zeitlichkeit versetzt).’ … The major premiss (P–U) announces the painful sundering of this sensuous existence (P) through its negative identification with the universality of divine essence (U). This is the death of Christ who ‘poses himself in (the originary separation of) judgement and expires in the pain of negativity (in den Schmerz der Negativität ersterbend)’. … From such premisses, the conclusion (S–U) is the absolute return, but again on the level of immediacy, in which individuality and universality are reconciled in the Idea of spirit which is present in the world in its eternity. It is Resurrection, the ‘absolute return’ of the Son, who ‘has realized his being as the Idea of the spirit, eternal, but alive and present in the world’. God’s appearance in the actual objective reality of the world makes history the very place of redemption and reconciliation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 670

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines precisely how the qualitative syllogism (S-P-U) maps onto Christology: Incarnation = minor premiss, Death = major premiss, Resurrection = conclusion.
  • XREF: Connects to the reader’s core task of tracing how plastic structure maps onto speculative logic — the syllogism is the formal skeleton of dialectical movement. — connects to: The Incarnation and Christ’s death are Hegel’s model for God’s genuine self-alienation as otherness — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 682; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154; Hegel positioned modern God’s-death feeling as a moment of the Idea — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 766 (+6 more)

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