The word of Hegel: “God is dead”

Abstract

The Heideggerian reading of the Nietzsche’s “death of God” has clearly manifested its essential relationship to the history of metaphysics. Heidegger draws it from the figure of the subjectivism that arises as foundation of the modern philosophy. It revolves Nietzsche’s thinking into the domain of the leading principle of the cogito established by Descartes. The “death of God” has the same interpretation in Hegel´s philosophy. He identifies it with the reason upraising and with the experience that consciousness makes of its unhappiness. This presentation takes place in the Chapters of the Self-consciousness and
Religion that conforms the Phenomenology of the spirit. This present text deals with the meaning in Hegel’s texts of the “death of God”, addressing the natural atheism under the scope of its meaning in the historical fulfillment of the metaphysics.