Spirit’s self-certainty requires the crushing of gods and men in prior epochs.

Evidence

In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the Death of God is explicitly presented as a moment in the ‘becoming-subject’ of substance. Spirit, in the Revealed Religion, ‘reveals itself as self-revelation’. It is this aspect which distinguishes a revealed religion from a ‘natural religion (natürliche Religion)’ T H E D E AT H O F G O D A N D T H E D E AT H O F P H I L O S O P H Y or from a ‘religion of art (Kunstreligion)’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 768 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation (similarity 0.90)
• Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man (similarity 0.87)
• Universal spirit becomes literally present within self-consciousness through worship. (similarity 0.87)
• God’s self-revelation distinguishes the Encyclopedia’s treatment of religion from its alternatives. (similarity 0.85)
• In Revealed Religion God is beheld directly as an actual individual man (similarity 0.85)
• Spirit becomes subject only by fashioning substance as its own material. (similarity 0.85)
• Revealed Religion alone makes the necessity of becoming intuitively perceptible (similarity 0.85)
• True religion is pure self-revelation that leaves no secret residue behind (similarity 0.84)
• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity (similarity 0.83)
• Spirit presents itself differently in nature, art, religion, and philosophy (similarity 0.83)
• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference (similarity 0.83)
• Modern philosophy’s subject-concept structurally depends on divine self-sacrifice (similarity 0.81)
• The modern conception of subjectivity pre-existed in God’s own self-revelation (similarity 0.81)
• God’s self-knowledge occurs through human self-consciousness and knowledge of God (similarity 0.81)
• Spirit’s revelation is the double externalization of concept into time and back into self (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 768