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The Role of Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenological Justification of Philosophical Science

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Hegel suggests in various statements that the beginning concept of philosophical science has a religious dimension. This chapter examines the way the proof procedure developed in the Phenomenology of Spirit justifies the beginning concept of philosophy and determines precisely how religious transcendence is preserved in it.

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Collins, A.B. (2020). The Role of Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenological Justification of Philosophical Science. In: Bykova, M.F., Westphal, K.R. (eds) The Palgrave Hegel Handbook. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26597-7_5

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