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In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric “the determinate religion.” This is a part of his corpus that has traditionally been neglected, since scholars have struggled to understand what philosophical work it is supposed to do. The present study argues that Hegel’s rich analyses of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Egyptian and Greek polytheism, and the Roman religion are not simply irrelevant historical material, as is often thought. Instead, they play a central role in Hegel’s argument for what he regards as the truth of Christianity. Hegel believes that the different conceptions of the gods in the world religions are reflections of individual peoples at specific periods in history. These conceptions might at first glance appear random and chaotic, but there is, Hegel claims, a discernible logic in them. Simultaneously a theory of mythology, history, and philosophical anthropology, Hegel’s account of the world religions goes far beyond the field of philosophy of religion. The controversial issues surrounding his treatment of the non-European religions are still very much with us today and make his account of religion an issue of continued topicality in the academic landscape of the twenty-first century.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Typ knihy: monography

Vydanie: 1.

Rok vydania: 2018

Miesto vydania: Oxford

Počet strán: 321

Language: anglický

Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, world religions, philosophy of religion, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Egyptian religion, Greek religion, Judaism, Christianity, mythology

ISBN 9780198829492 (print), ISBN 9780191868030 (online)