黑格爾論有限精神上昇到上帝的認知過程   免費試閱

Hegel on the Cognitive Process of Finite Spirit's Elevation to God

在黑格爾看來，宗教與哲學具有相同的內容，不同之處是形式。宗教的形式是表象，哲學的形式是思想。內容都是上帝，由於上帝是理性的，因此人類精神提昇到上帝是一個理性的認知過程。在伊始之際，關於上帝我們一無所知。因此以人為起點，看看如何通過直覺、情感、表象、思想等必然發展環節，來展現上帝的理念的演化過程，以純粹思想的形式來表達上帝的知識。這個過程雖然經歷認知形式上的變易，然而內容並不改變，相同內容一直持存在整個過程裡，不同處在於從自在的形式變易為自為的形式，從潛能發展為現實。

Religion and Philosophy have the divine content as their common object, the forms alone being different. Religion comprehends God in the form of representation, whereas philosophy comprehends in the form of thought. Inasmuch as God is rational, human being's spiritual elevation to God is a rational process which necessarily passes through the cognitive moments of intuition, feeling, representation and thought. The divine content retains the same in the process of cognitive development, and yet the forms finite spirits assume make all the differences.