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- Oct 11 3:20 PMIn response to the Wed10oct18 post of Alan Ponikvar:> ... What Hegel tells us is that because the infinite is> determined in contrast to the finite, the infinite is itself> finite. Or the infinite as represented falls into the finite...>> * Alan
Again, Alan, you're making stuff up. You claim to speak for Hegel quite a lot -- yet you don't quote Hegel much at all. That's one of your main faults on this Hegel site.Your understanding of Hegel's Absolute Geist, Absolute Idea, Absolute Spirit, Absolute, Necessary, Infinite Truth -- is flawed. Hegel says the CONTENT remains the same, though the FORMs are different between Religion and Speculative Philosophy.You deny that, claiming that the CONTENT "must" change when the FORM changes. Yet I can quote Hegel himself on this point -- and you cannot. Hegel says:
"Thus Religion has a CONTENT in common with
Philosophy, the FORMS alone being different."
(Hegel, LPR 1, tr. Hodgson, p. 79)
You claim, Alan, that Hegel is being deliberately dishonest, otherwise he would have agreed with your point. Yet Hegel repeats his formula again, again and again. Clearly, you willfully make yourself deaf, dumb and blind to Hegel's Speculative Philosophy. Hegel says:"It must be said that the content of Philosophy,
its need and interest, is wholly in common with
that of Religion. The object of Religion, like
that of Philosophy, is Eternal Truth, God and
nothing but God and the explication of God."
(Hegel, LPR 1, p. 79)This doesn't sink into your ears, Alan, because when Hegel speaks, you refuse to listen. Hegel says:"Philosophy is only explicating *itself* when
it explicates Religion, and when it explicates
itself it is explicating Religion...Thus
Religion and Philosophy coincide into one."
(Hegel, LPR 1, p. 79)Hegel is completely aware that he is writing during the period of Napoleon, after the French Revolution, when the ideas of Atheism are at a fever pitch politically, and that Religion was -- for many philosophers -- "inimical" to Philosophy. Yet Hegel says:"This must be the standpoint of the
Philosophy of the present time; it has
begun within Christianity and can have
no other content than the World Spirit.
When that Spirit comprehends itself in
Philosophy, it also comprehends itself
in that form which formerly was inimical
to Philosophy." (Hegel, LPR, vol. 1, p. 79)These quotations by Hegel are the tip of the iceberg, Alan. Yet you willfully neglect them, and go on your own way, with your own Pure Understanding of a Kantian *split* between the Finite and the Infinite, failing to attain to Hegel's Absolute Geist.Sincerely,
-Paul Trejo, MA
Cal State U., Dominguez Hills (1989) - << Previous post in topic Next post in topic >>