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42220Re: [hegel] Development

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  • Paul Trejo
    Aug 2, 2018
      In response to the Wed01Aug18 post by Stephen Theron:

      > Hegel, McTaggart noted, has little to say on 
      > immortality...But what could Hegel have said?  

      So, Stephen, here are several quotations from Hegel on the concept of the Eternal.  Hegel says:

      "The absolute unity, as of itself self-identical
      in its differentiation, is Eternal Love...This 
      is Spirit..." (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 78) 

      And also,

      "The death of God, and its relevance for us
      ...must be considered.  This death is one that 
      makes satisfaction for us because it presents 
      the Absolute History of the Divine Idea as a 
      History that has taken place in-itself and 
      happens Eternally." (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 127)
       
      And also,

      "God's activity is to posit God in 
      Self-contradiction, but Eternally to 
      resolve and reconcile this contradiction." 
      (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 271)

      And also,

      "God's creative role is not an Actus 
      that happened once, rather, what takes 
      place in the Idea is an Eternal Moment, 
      an Eternal Determination of the Idea." 
      (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 275)     

      And also,

      "It is Eternal Love; the Holy Spirit
      is Eternal Love. When we say, 'God is 
      Love,' we say something very great and 
      true." (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 276)

      And also,

      "The consciousness or feeling of the 
      identity of the two -- to be outside 
      myself and in the Other -- this is Love
      ...This is the simple, Eternal Idea." 
      (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 276)

      And also,

       "We consider God in God’s Eternal Idea, 
      as God is in-itself-and-for-itself, prior 
      to or apart from the creation of the world, 
      so to speak. (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 276)

      And also,

      "The Holy Spirit is Eternal Love." 
      (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 276)

      And also,

      "Without knowing that Love is both a 
      distinguishing and the sublation of the 
      distinction, one speaks emptily of it. 
      This is the simple, Eternal Idea." 
      (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 276)

      And also,

      "In God there is only one birth, the Act 
      as Eternal activity." (Hegel, LPR, p. 288)  

      And also,

      "Eternal Being in-itself-and-for-itself is 
      what discloses itself, determines itself, 
      divides itself, posits itself as what is 
      Differentiated from itself, but the 
      Difference is at the same time constantly 
      sublated." (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 291)

      And also,

      "It is said, 'Christ has died for all.' 
      This is not a single act but the Eternal 
      Divine History.  It is a moment in the 
      nature of God; it has taken place in God." 
      (Hegel, LPR 3, p. 328)

      That is enough for now.  I will ask here whether McTaggart was being too literal -- thinking of a fleshly Immortality.    Rather, for Hegel, Eternal Life is Eternal Life precisely in the Eternal Life of God.   This requires a profoundly spiritual understanding of Immortality.

      I will return to your interesting post in another post.

      All best,
      --Paul

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