Suffering of god and absence of god in the thought of Hegel from 1802 to 1807

Abstract

The conception of the Absolute in Hegel covers God in the figure of religion. In it, God is not considered as an abstract substance, equal to itself, but as a figure of the Spirit which, as itself, extends through the “pain of the negative”, which causes its dialectical movement. The inner experience of the modern religion, the “death of God”, obeys to this alienation. Its presentation concerns the Incarnation of God and the sacrificial relinquishment of the Son who
witnesses the withdrawal of the Father. The present paper develops this negativity, from the Jena time texts, inherent to the holy: Faith and knowledge, the Philosophy of nature and mainly the Phenomenology of Spirit, in which the “unhappy consciousness”, the “art of religion” and the “revealed religion” figures are analyzed.The conception of the Absolute in Hegel covers God in the figure of religion. In it, God is not considered as an abstract substance, equal to itself, but as a figure of the Spirit which, as itself, extends through the “pain of the negative”, which causes its dialectical movement. The inner experience
of the modern religion, the “death of God”, obeys to this alienation. Its presentation concerns the Incarnation of God and the sacrificial relinquishment of the Son who witnesses the withdrawal of the Father. The present paper develops this negativity, from the Jena time texts, inherent to the holy: Faith and knowledge, the Philosophy of nature and mainly the Phenomenology of Spirit, in which the “unhappy consciousness”, the “art of religion” and the “revealed religion” figures are analyzed.