Hegel's Reception of Aristotle's Theology

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ID19553003
AutoresTobias Dangel (Heidelberg University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume41
Fascículo1
Páginas102-117
Data de publicação2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHegel Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2051-5367 • E-ISSN: 2051-5375
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/hgl.2019.14
OpenAlexW2976983417
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas12

In several of his writings Hegel suggests an identification of his absolute idea/spirit with Aristotle's God in the Metaphysics . This suggestion is remarkable since it indicates that Hegel regarded his philosophy in line with classical positions in ancient metaphysics. Although there is increasing discussion of the relation between Hegel and Aristotle it is still doubtful what it was that Hegel seemed to find at the highest point of Aristotle's philosophy. To clarify this relation within the realm of first philosophy I will first give a short reconstruction of Aristotle's conception of God in order, second, to confront this conception with the absolute idea/spirit in Hegel. Against Ferrarin, I will not primarily discuss the conception of actuality/activity and infinite subjectivity; rather I will focus on Aristotle's and Hegel's ontological understanding of truth. The new thesis in my paper is that Hegel can relate his theory of the absolute idea/spirit to Aristotle's God on the basis of their shared understanding of truth. This understanding allows both of them to find the highest realization and thus the fulfillment of truth in the self-thinking thinking of God (Aristotle) or the self-thinking thinking of the absolute idea/spirit (Hegel). When Hegel seems to return to Aristotle at the end of his system, this return has its systematic link in the idea of a fulfilled truth which is God or the Absolute in the sense of self-thinking thinking. Although Hegel's return to Aristotle's theology has a certain plausibility, it is also limited by the fact that for Aristotle God's self-thinking thinking is not a process of self-determination, as Hegel finds it to be and which leads him to miss a crucial feature of Aristotle's theology

Epistemology · Hegelianism · Metaphysics · Subjectivity · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy