Love as the Logic of Reconciliation in Hegel

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Brandon L. Morgan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Dialectical Logic ◽  
Dialectical Philosophy ◽  
Working Out

This essay explores the significance of Hegel’s considerations of love for his later dialectical philosophy in order to bring to attention love’s continued import as a category of logical and theological unity and reconciliation. A lingering question for Hegel scholarship is why he seemingly drops the unifying notion of love in his more developed dialectical philosophy, choosing instead to expound a philosophy of the concept that solely grants to reason the task of dialectical recovery. On my reading, this interpretation suffers from a failure to imagine Hegel’s early writings on love as contributing to the working out of his later dialectical logic and philosophy of spirit, specifically in terms of the unifying and reconciling principle of Vernunft (reason) in contrast to Verstand (understanding). Furthermore, Hegel’s substantial appeals to love in the later Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion show love's continued significance for him, not only as a logical but a theological principle of unity between finite and infinite spirit, a unity lost on the understanding alone. Reading Hegel’s Vernunft as a form of rationally reconciling love, therefore, shows a continuity in Hegel’s thinking that brings to bear Hegel’s later philosophical developments of reason and spirit on his philosophical theology.

scholarly journals The Dialectic: Not just the Absolute Recoil, but the World’s Living Fire that Extinguishes and Kindles Itself. Reflections on Slavoj Žižek’s Version of Dialectical Philosophy in "Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism".

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Dialectical Logic ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Dialectical Philosophy ◽  
The Absolute

Slavoj Žižek shows in his book Absolute Recoil (and previous Hegelian works such as Less than Nothing) the importance of repeating Hegel’s dialectical philosophy in contemporary capitalism. Žižek contributes especially to a reconceptualisation of dialectical logic and based on it the dialectic of history. The reflections in this paper stress that the dialectic is only the absolute recoil, a sublation that posits its own presuppositions, by working as a living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself. I point out that a new foundation of dialectical materialism needs a proper Heraclitusian foundation. I discuss Žižek’s version of the dialectic that stresses the absolute recoil and the logic of retroactivity and point out its implications for the concept of history as well as Žižek’s own theoretical ambiguities that oscillate between postmodern relativism and mechanical materialism. I argue that Žižek’s version of the dialectic should be brought into a dialogue with the dialectical philosophies of the German Marxists Hans Heinz Holz and Herbert Hörz. Žižek’s achievement is that he helps keeping alive the fire of dialectical materialism in the 21st century. Such a dialectical fire is needed for a proper revolutionary theory.

Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology: some ideas on drawing the demarcation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Kirill Karpov
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Critical Notes

In this paper I consider two books of Vladimir Shokhin, a distinguished philosopher in Russia, on philosophy of religion (2010) and philosophical theology (2018) as one project aimed at drawing the demarcation between these two disciplines. In what follows I will present Shokhin’s project and show briefly how it fits in with the current discussion on the topic, then, draw some consequences from his position, and make some critical notes, and at the end I will briefly present some my views on the problem of drawing clear lines of demarcation between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology on the basis of the following questions: (1) what is the topic of the disciplines, (2) what are their methods, (3) what are their guiding lines, and (4) who may exercise them?

Continental Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Aaron Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Theology And Philosophy

This chapter attempts to outline possible contributions that continental philosophy can make to the epistemology of theology. It begins with an extended engagement with Nicholas Wolterstorff in order to argue that continental philosophy need not be viewed as inherently hostile to philosophical theology. Indeed, there are reasons to think that continental philosophy should be understood as an important resource for philosophical theology and philosophy of religion. With this meta-philosophical framework in place, possible specific ways in which continental philosophy might contribute to discussions concerning the epistemology of theology are then discussed. In particular, the chapter focuses on debates concerning foundationalism, experience, revelation, and realism/anti-realism.

Cardinal Newman's Phenomenology of Religious Belief

1974 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Newman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
New Method ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Successes And Failures

While one of John Henry Newman's principal aims in the Grammar of Assent is to explain how men can give a ‘real assent’ to the existence of God, the major part of the actual phenomenology of religious belief in the work is concentrated in the fifth of its ten chapters. Unfortunately, this section of the essay has been overshadowed by the preliminary distinction between real and notional apprehension and by the later invocation of the illative sense; but perhaps the time is now ripe for a closer examination of this central part of Newman's philosophy of religion, which is in many ways the key to the successes and failures of Newman's new method in philosophical theology.

Faith and Belief

1974 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Donald Evans
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy

What is religious faith? Contemporary philosophy of religion and philosophical theology provide a bewildering abundance of different answers to this question. In this essay I shall sketch an over-view of some of the literature, in the form of a classificatory schema. I hope that this schema will enable the reader to distinguish with greater clarity some of the various kinds of issue which arise. My focus will be on contrasts between faith and belief.

scholarly journals Religion not only within the Bounds of Bare Reason

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-167
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Yuryevna Berdnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
History Of

The review is devoted to the analysis of the monograph by K.M. Antonov, which represents a fundamentally new and original methodological approach that allows you to look at the history of Russian philosophy of the late XVIII – early XX centuries as a “secular alternative” to the traditional theology. Because of this new methodology it becomes possible to correlate the ideas of Russian thinkers of that era with the problems of modern religious studies, philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. The work of Antonov in this regard can rightfully be called the "continuation" of classical works on the history of Russian religious philosophy by V.V. Zenkovsky, N.O. Lossky and G.V. Florovsky.

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