Hegel and the Philosophy of Religion The Wofford Symposium

THE WOFFORD SYMPOSIUM: ITs PURPOSE, GENESIS, AND THEME The purpose of The Wofford Symposium was to stimulate original scholarship on the theme of the meeting, to provide a forum in philosophy of high quality in the area which Wofford College principally s

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Hegel and the Philosophy of Religion The Wofford Symposium

Edited, and with Introduction by

DARREL E. CHRISTENSEN

In celebration of the Bi-centennial of the Birth of Hegel, 1970

MARTINUS NIJHOFF / THE HAGUE / 1970

© 1970 by Martinlls Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form

ISBN 978-94-011-8439-7 ISBN 978-94-011-9152-4 (eBook) DOl 10.10071978-94-011-9152-4

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction

VII

XIII

xv

SECTION I SOME HISTORICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS OF HEGEL'S SYSTEM, by Dieter Henrich (Heidelberg University) Comment by Charles E. Scott (Vanderbilt University) Comment by Eugene Thomas Long (Randolph-Macon College) Henrich: Reply to Commentators

25 45 50 55

SECTION II THE YOUNG HEGEL AND THE POSTULATES OF PRACTICAL REASON, by H. S. Harris (York University) Comment by W. E. Steinkraus (State University of N.Y., Oswego) Comment by Thomas N. Munson (DePaul University) Discussion

SECTION

61 79 85 89

III

HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND AS A DEVELOPMENT OF KANT'S BASIC ONTOLOGY, by W. H. Werkmeister (Florida State University) Comment by Murray Greene (New School of Social Research) Comment by George Schrader (Yale University) Werkmeister: Reply to Commentators

93 111 116 121

VI

Table of contents SECTION IV

HEGEL'S "UNHAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS" AND NIETZSCHE'S "SLAVE MoRALITY," by Murray Greene (New School of Social Research) Comment by Joseph C. Flay (Pennsylvania State University) Comment by Thomas J. J. Altizer (State University of N.Y., Stony Brook) Greene: Reply to Commentators

125 142 147 153

SECTION V HEGEL'S REINTERPRETATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF SPIRIT AND THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, by John E. Smith (Yale University) Comment by P. Christopher Smith (Lowell State College) John E. Smith: Reply to P. Christopher Smith

157 178 184

SECTION VI HEGEL AND THE MARXIST-LENINIST CRITIQUE OF RELIGION, by George L. Kline (Bryn Mawr College) Comment by W. Winslow Shea (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Comment by Ignas K. Skrupskelis (University of South Carolina) Kline: Reply to Commentators Discussion

187 203 208 212 216

SECTION VII "AUTHENTICITY" AND "WARRANTED BELIEF" IN HEGEL'S DIALECTIC OF RELIGION, by Darrel E. Christensen (Wofford College) Comment by J. N. Findlay (Yale University) Christensen: Reply to J. N. Findlay Discussion

217 249 255 258

SECTION VIII HEGEL ON THE IDENTITY OF CONTENT IN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY, by Quentin Lauer, S. J. (Fordham University) Comment by James Doull (Dalhousie University) Comment by Charles D. Darrett (Wofford College) Lauer: Reply to Commentators Discussion

261 279 284 289 292

Index

303

PREFACE

THE WOFFORD SYMPOSIUM:

ITs

PURPOSE, GENESIS, AND THEME

The purpose of The Wofford Symposium was to stimulate original scholarship on the theme of the meeting, to provide a forum in philosophy of high quality in the area which Wofford College principally serves, and to make available for publication this collection of papers, whic