Hegel's Proofs of the Existence of God

In Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 414–429 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Hegel's Discussion of the Proofs On “Proof” and “Existence” The Proofs, Religious Elevation, and the Communion of Spirit The Multiplicity of Proofs and the One God The Cosmological Proof The Teleological Proof The Ontological Proof The Dialectic of the Proofs and the Speculative Reversal Hegel's Proofs Today.

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Hegel's proofs of the existence of God   Hegel's treatment, “proofs of the existence of God” ‐ found in Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion   cosmological proof, according to Hegel ‐ religions of nature, as well as Judaism and Greek religion   “proof” and “existence” applied to God, problematic ‐ ascribing to proofs of existence of God   Hegel's second point, proofs of God ‐ subjective procedure, the proper movement of the object in itself   proofs, religious elevation and communion of spirit ‐ elevation of human spirit to God   multiplicity of proofs and the one god ‐ Hegel noting historical facts of empirical multiplicity of proofs   Hegel, proposing a reduction of proofs ‐ three principal forms, Hegel's argument logical   cosmological proof, presupposing the world in general ‐ its contingency in particular   teleological proof, between cosmological and ontological proofs ‐ transition in freedom, purpose and wisdom

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10.1002/9781444397161.ch20

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