Modern religion draws on the same subjectivity principle that undermines it
Evidence
Both metaphysics and ‘the religion of the modern epoch’ depend on the same state of feeling. But how can it be that religion is based on the very principle which destroys it? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 799
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The core Hegelian paradox condensed: Protestant subjectivity both sustains modern religion and is the very principle (subjective certainty, withdrawal from external authority) that destroys it — a generative tension central to plasticity as self-undermining determination.
- XREF: connects to: Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 615; The modern conception of subjectivity pre-existed in God’s own self-revelation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 632; Secularism subsumes the religious under private reason by an act of categorization (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness.
#corroborates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 615 - Radical skepticism destabilizes the very secular subject it defines
#corroborates(0.80) - The modern conception of subjectivity pre-existed in God’s own self-revelation
#corroborates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 632 - Secularism subsumes the religious under private reason by an act of categorization
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