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The Life of Jesus (1795) 1 is a strange work, standing apart from Hegel's previous writings both in style and content. The investigative rigor of his previous thought appears now to give way to “little more than a forced attempt to depict Jesus as a teacher of what is in substance Kant's ethics.”2 For us, the Life of Jesus is more than odd. It is an obstacle. The apparent teaching of the Life of Jesus stands in tension with the interpretation of Hegel's Problemstellung we developed over the last two chapters. On the
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Goldstein, J.D. (2006). THE END OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT: THE LIFE OF JESUS OF 1795. In: Hegel's Idea of the Good Life. Studies in German Idealism, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4192-6_03
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