On Hegel

More on Hegel
by valpetridis @ 2008-11-21 - 21:20:48
Does Hegel's formulation of the divine fit classical definitions of God if God exists in absolute spirit only if humans do? Have you noticed according to Hegel nature does not need humans to exist, though Nature does as a universal concept need humans to exist? Thus, nature exists independently of humanity yet God who is the creator exists only if conscious beings, such as humans, exist to realise Nature and the Divine.Is Hegel saying that the art producing God created from the inspiration of the synthesis of nature based on humans observing it creates the infinite Art of Divinity expressed through the phenomenology of Nature as divine Art, or the Creator forming nature as only humans observing it can realise it? Humans create God as an expression of their divinity and try to describe the synthetic product of the phenomenology of nature as the more than the sum of its parts. Yet as art, which is only a particular form of the universal form of nature, it is finite, but as divinity, which encompasses the whole, it is God. Thus, Humans describe nature by ascribing divinity to the art of the Awe of the realisation of Nature. “I have seen the whole" says Hegel in Reason in History, hence Hegel either saw God, or saw what created God as god. Truly Hegel saw God as only a god can and realised the synthetic product that is manifested due to humans apprehending the existence of the whole that is ascribed the title of God.