Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness.
Evidence
Yet history and philosophy intersect, an intersection that immediately justifies this approach. The emergence of modern subjectivity is, for Hegel, fundamentally and profoundly connected to the advent of Christianity. In the Lectures on the Philosophy of History, he traces the evolution from the Greek to the Roman world where the principle of ‘spiritual inwardness’ first comes into view – though only as the condition of abstract ‘personality’ or ego. With such a principle, ‘humanity has the sphere of free spirituality in and for itself’ and delimits ‘the place where the divine spirit has its inward abode and presence’. Spiritual inwardness is the condition of freedom, the ‘higher principle’ and the content revealed in Revealed Religion. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 615
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s brain/plasticity work: Hegel roots modern selfhood in a historical-religious emergence — the ‘subject’ is not a given but a formed, historically-plastic achievement. — connects to: Christianity’s spiritual turn ceded worldly life to profane authority; Theology and philosophy together produced the modern subject concept.; Philosophy realizes the subjective freedom that Christian religion first disclosed. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 616 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Philosophy realizes the subjective freedom that Christian religion first disclosed.
#corroborates(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 616 - Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation
#expands(0.78) - Theology and philosophy together produced the modern subject concept.
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