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To: Mad Dawg

I pulled out his “The Phenomenology of Mind” and scanned a few chapters. Chapter VI, on Spirit strikes me as more humanist in perspective than Christian.

“Reason is spirit, when its certainty of being all reality has been raised to the level of truth, and reason is consciously aware of itself as its own world, and of the world as itself.”

IMHO, definitely not the human spirit of Pauline or Johanine writings.


44 posted on 11/11/2008 6:14:57 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr
Oh, fer shur. No argument.

For one thing, neither "spirit" nor "mind" adequately translate "Geist" as Hegel uses the word. And I think while he has, or thinks he has, Xtian influences in his thought, he is not trying to be a theologian. In the "Athens v. Jerusalem" division, he's sho' nuff on the Athens side, by way of German Idealism.

45 posted on 11/12/2008 4:12:03 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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