Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation
Evidence
In ‘natural religion’ (the religion of the Parsees and early Indian religions), ‘spirit knows itself as its object in a natural or immediate shape’. In the ‘religion of art’ (Greek religion), consciousness produces itself in the form of a ‘Self’, so that when consciousness admires its object, it is in fact intuiting itself, as we see in the beauty of classical art. Here ‘naturality’ (Naturalität), formerly the religious object for spirit, is annulled. But it is for the first time in Revealed Religion that the spirit’s attainment of self-knowledge is actually incarnated in a man, a determinate self. From this point on, spirit becomes selfconsciousness while the divine essence becomes human. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770 (
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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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Hegel differentiates Revealed Religion from the previous figures of religion because it awakens in us the intuitive perception of the necessity of coming-to-be (la nécessité du devenir), the evolution or development (devenir) through which substance raises itself to the form of selfconsciousness. Now this necessity could not be produced; it can only be something that ‘offers itself’ to intuition. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 862 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 615; True religion is pure self-revelation that leaves no secret residue behind — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 653; Universal spirit becomes literally present within self-consciousness through worship. (+11 more)
Related
- Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man (similarity 0.94)
- Revealed Religion alone makes the necessity of becoming intuitively perceptible (similarity 0.93)
- In Revealed Religion God is beheld directly as an actual individual man (similarity 0.91)
- Universal spirit becomes literally present within self-consciousness through worship. (similarity 0.91)
- True religion is pure self-revelation that leaves no secret residue behind (similarity 0.89)
- Spirit’s self-certainty requires the crushing of gods and men in prior epochs. (similarity 0.87)
- God’s self-revelation distinguishes the Encyclopedia’s treatment of religion from its alternatives. (similarity 0.87)
- The modern conception of subjectivity pre-existed in God’s own self-revelation (similarity 0.84)
- Spirit becomes subject only by fashioning substance as its own material. (similarity 0.84)
- God’s self-knowledge occurs through human self-consciousness and knowledge of God (similarity 0.82)
- For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity (similarity 0.82)
- Revealed Religion recapitulates logic’s concept-judgement-syllogism structure point for point (similarity 0.81)
- Modern subjectivity emerged from Christianity’s principle of spiritual inwardness. (similarity 0.81)
- For Hegel God’s essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself (similarity 0.81)
- Spirit presents itself differently in nature, art, religion, and philosophy (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man
#corroborates(0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770 - For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815 - Revealed Religion alone makes the necessity of becoming intuitively perceptible
#qualifies(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 862