The Crisis of Religion and the Logic of the Gods - Hegel's Philosophy of Religion

The Crisis of Religion and the Logic of the Gods - Hegel's Philosophy of Religion

Explore Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion in this 55-minute Fellows' Presentation at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Delve into Hegel's accounts of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Egyptian religion. Examine the organization of Hegel's lectures and the reasons for neglecting the historical dimension in his philosophy of religion. Investigate the Egyptian conception of immortality and their gods as a mixture of human and animal figures. Compare the Greek religion's war of the gods and the reduction of natural elements to the symbolic. Contrast the Artemis of Ephesus with the Greek cult of Artemis, and explore the architectural significance of the Pyramids and the Parthenon in religious contexts.