Philosophy realizes the subjective freedom that Christian religion first disclosed.

Evidence

For Hegel, modern philosophy retrospectively furnishes the conceptual realization of the ‘principle of subjective freedom’. In fact, philosophy could not ‘develop except on the basis of religion’. Consequently, it is incumbent on philosophy to redeem and set free the speculative content of Christianity by raising it to the absolute concept, that of subjectivity. Given its form by Descartes, radicalized in its significance by Kant, the subject will henceforth appear as an independent principle and as the absolute autonomy of thought. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 616

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s plasticity project: the subject as something ‘given form’ then ‘radicalized’ — an account of conceptual development through successive shaping, not static definition. — connects to: The idea that essence precedes existence survives even in atheist and Enlightenment thought. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 9; Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 615; The concept of conscience as hidden self-government is modern and Christian — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1180 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The concept of conscience as hidden self-government is modern and Christian #expands (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1180
• Universal monotheism introduced individual free choice and collective humanity as new concepts #corroborates (0.72) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 563