Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

The Lectures of 1827

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Peter Hodgson

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520368231
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520326606
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

This one-volume abridged edition of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion is intended for student and classroom use as well as for a wider readership. It reprints, from the three-volume critical edition (University of California Press, 1984, 1985, 1987), the complete text of Hegel's lectures delivered in 1827. Of the three series of lectures on philosophy of religion that presently can be reconstructed, those of 1827 are the latest, the most clearly organized, and the most accessible to nonspecialists. Here for the first time a complete version of Hegel's lectures on this topic is made available in a single volume and in a form corresponding to Hegel's original presentation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS
• FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS BY HEGEL
• EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. Hegel’s Four Series of Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
• 2. Sources and Editions of the Philosophy-of-Religion Lectures5
• 3. The Structure, Context, and Distinctive Themes of the Lectures in Brief
• 4. Analysis of the Text of the 1827 Lectures14
• THE LECTURES OF 1827 INTRODUCTION
• Preface26
• 1. Comparison of Philosophy and Religion with Regard to Their Object5
• 2. The Relationship of the Science of Religion to the Needs of Our Time11 “
• 3. Survey of the Treatment of Our Subject37 “
• PART I THE CONCEPT OF RELIGION
• A. THE CONCEPT OF GOD46
• B. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD37
• 1. Immediate Knowledge63
• 2. Feeling62
• 3. Representation75
• 4. Thought
• C. THE CULTUS77
• PART II DETERMINATE RELIGION
• Introduction2 3
• A. IMMEDIATE RELIGION, OR NATURE RELIGION Introduction90
• 1. The Religion of Magic112
• 2. The Religion of Being-Within-Self (Buddhism, Lamaism)138
• 3. The Hindu Religion200
• 4. The Religions of Transition244
• B. THE ELEVATION OF THE SPIRITUAL ABOVE THE NATURAL: THE RELIGION OF THE GREEKS AND THE JEWS347
• 1. The Religion of Beauty, or Greek Religion
• 2. The Religion of Sublimity, or Jewish Religion344
• C. THE RELIGION OF EXPEDIENCY: ROMAN RELIGION387
• 1. The Concept of Purposiveness
• 2. The Configuration of the Gods
• 3. The Cultus
• PART III THE CONSUMMATE RELIGION
• Introduction 1. Definition of This Religion411
• 2. The Positivity and Spirituality of This Religion6
• 3. Survey of Previous Developments446
• 4. Division of the Subject461
• A. THE FIRST ELEMENT: THE IDEA OF GOD IN AND FOR ITSELF465
• B. THE SECOND ELEMENT: REPRESENTATION, APPEARANCE504'* 1. Differentiation
• 2. Reconciliation
• C. THE THIRD ELEMENT: COMMUNITY, SPIRIT582
• 1. The Origin of the Community
• 2. The Subsistence of the Community
• 3. The Realization of the Spirituality of the Community
• APPENDIXES TABLES
• SYSTEMATIC STRUCTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
• COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE OF HEGEL'S INTRODUCTION
• COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT OF RELIGION
• COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE OF DETERMINATE RELIGION
• COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE CONSUMMATE RELIGION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES FOR HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
• GLOSSARY
• INDEX