Dio alla fine del linguaggio. Riflessioni su Dio visto da Hegel

Autor(en)

Kurt Appel

Abstrakt

This text wants to point to important but often overlooked aspects of the question of God in Hegel's oeuvre that might also be relevant for contemporary discussions on the meaning of “God”. It aims at an interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy that goes beyond the traditional characteristics attributed to it such as being a totalitarian system. The first part of the text introduces Hegel’s dialectic that finds its peak in Hegel’s Science of Logic. The second part tries to delineate the main results of Hegel’s first major work, The Phenomenology of Spirit, and argues that God can be understood as the inter-subjective sphere in which the subject points beyond itself toward its other. The third part outlines the Science of Logic with an eye on Hegel's references to the question of God and emphasizes the important part that the language of the Logic plays for Hegel’s understanding of God. The text argues that the language of the Logic is neither denotative nor positivistic, as it does not aim at mirroring an object-like world outside language. Its different categories constitute a negative referential context (Verweisungszusammenhang) which creates a form of meaning that is never directly representable but is the result of references and their deplacements. In Hegel´s Logic „God“ indicates the negativity and crisis of language that revokes depiction and has to be understood as the openness of referenciality. Pointing at this openness cognition is accomplished through recognition, as the truth of Being can only be (re)cognized in refering to its free otherness, beyond pragmatic, abstract-theoretical „veils“ and appropriations.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik, Forschungszentrum Religion and Transformation

Journal

SOPHIA

Band

XI

Seiten

95-110

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0038-1527

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603206 Fundamentaltheologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/dio-alla-fine-del-linguaggio-riflessioni-su-dio-visto-da-hegel(ed387ac7-d670-4537-897c-2b1df1f81f08).html