Revealed Religion recapitulates logic’s concept-judgement-syllogism structure point for point

Evidence

In its entirety, the movement of Revealed Religion respects the triple logical exposition of concept, judgement and syllogism. The introductory paragraphs2 expose ā€˜the concept of religion’, stressing the meaning of ā€˜selfrevelation’, then pointing to the specificity of the mode of religious representation4 in order to present in detail, at the end, the three ā€˜special spheres’ of representation. These three correspond to the three logical moments of the deployment of the concept of religion itself. … The Trinity in the element of ā€˜pure thought or the abstract medium of essence’ characterizes the religious moment of the concept. The moment of judgement appears next in its triple articulation: creation, birth of the ā€˜only Son’, and introduction of evil. Then, the three syllogisms of Revelation follow: (1) the syllogism of the Incarnation, the Death and Resurrection of the Son (kenosis in the Incarnation and Death of Christ); (2) the syllogism of the identification of the faithful with the glorious Death of Christ; (3) syllogism of the cultic community. The conclusion of this movement announces the sublation of the representational form by speculative thought, thus initiating the dialectical transition from Religion into Philosophy. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 651

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Maps Hegel’s whole treatment of Revealed Religion onto the canonical logical triad, giving the reader the structural skeleton to annotate against.
  • XREF: connects to: Revealed Religion’s movement maps onto logic’s three moments of concept, judgement, and syllogism; Speech-based reasoning grants religion a unique super-category never excludable — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 868; Logic’s genre-like structure individuates thought through self-projecting contingency (+3 more)

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