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 serves, and to make available for publication this collection of papers, which it was felt would meet a peculiar need in the contemporary literature of philosophy. In April, 1967, I attended the annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America at Purdue University. Noting the frequency with which Hegel was brought into the discussions at that meeting, I was led on two occasions to inject the question into informal group discussions in the halls, "Isn't it time some sort of symposium on Hegel was held?" On the last occasion Professor Frederick Weiss replied, "Why don't you start it?" I'm not yet certain how serious the remark was intended to be, but after waiting two months, half expecting to hear of a plan under way, it occurred to me that perhaps what was wanting was a concrete proposal. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Introduction....Pages 1-24 Some Historical Presuppositions of Hegel’s System....Pages 25-60 The Young Hegel and the Postulates of Practical Reason....Pages 61-91 Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind as a Development of Kant’s Basic Ontology....Pages 93-124 Hegel’s “Unhappy Consciousness” and Nietzsche’s “Slave Morality”....Pages 125-155 Hegel’s Reinterpretation of the Doctrine of Spirit and the Religious Community....Pages 157-185 Hegel and the Marxist-Leninist Critique of Religion....Pages 187-215 “Authenticity” and “Warranted Belief” in Hegel’s Dialectic of Religion....Pages 217-259 Hegel on the Identity of Content in Religion and Philosophy....Pages 261-295 Back Matter....Pages 296-301 "In celebration of the bi-centennial of the birth of Hegel, 1970."