In this essay, I examine Robert Williams’s account of Hegel’s concept of divine “personhood.” I endorse Williams’s claims that God, for Hegel, is not a person but exhibits only personhood, and that divine personhood realises itself in a human community based on mutual recognition. I take issue, however, with Williams’s further claim that Hegel also takes God and humanity to stand in a relation of mutual recognition to one another, since this claim, in my view, risks turning God into a (...) person after all. To conclude, I briefly consider a difference between Williams and myself concerning the relation of right to mutual recognition. (shrink)

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain took place on September 15–16, 1983 in the delightful setting of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. The theme of this year’s conference - “Hegel’s Dialectic” - was approached in a variety of ways by the contributors and provoked several lively and interesting discussions. The first paper of the conference was to have been given by Howard Williams, but unfortunately he had found his way to Pembroke College instead of St. Edmund (...) Hall and so was unable to begin the proceedings. The conference started therefore with a paper by John Llewelyn entitled “The Development of Dialectic from Kant to Hegel.”. (shrink)

The Sixth Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain took place on September 13–14, 1984 at the same venue as the 1983 conference, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. The topic for this year’s conference was “The Young Hegel,” and the papers covered various aspects of Hegel’s thought in the period before 1803.

The Seventh Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain took place on September 12–13, 1985 at Pembroke College, Oxford. The theme of the conference was Hegel’s political philosophy.