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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Thoughts
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In seeking to find a basis for a more synthetic unity of the variety of experience, Hegel focuses upon human consciousness. The human mind is confronted with a variety of experiences, which it manages to analyze and classify. It dissects experience. Yet the human mind is ... capable of synthesizing such variety into a persisting unity, the unity of its consciousness. By examination of the human consciousness, one can arrive at a vision of an ultimate unity of experience which is fundamentally rational, as it is necessarily based in the human thought process. He outlines the "historical" development of human consciousness, arising from a primordial insensibility, to a recognition of self as subject amidst a world of alien objects.
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Glenn Alexander Magee's controversial book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. In the middle ages and modern period, the Hermetic tradition became entwined with such mystical strands of thought as alchemy, Kabbalism, Millenarianism, Rosicrucianism, and theosophy. Recent scholarship has drawn connections between the Hermetic "counter-tradition" and many modern thinkers, including Leibniz and Newton.
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At this point in the development of his thought, Hegel had come to consider religion to be essentially and primarily internal, a matter of the heart. In addition, religion must not only accommodate the needs of the individual, but ... those of the entire population. Thus Hegel identifies community as an important dimension of religion. These considerations gave rise to requirements that any adequate religion must satisfy. Hegel recommended that the doctrines of religion be grounded on universal reason, not just authority; that they be understandable by the general public; and that they not contain moral demands which are beyond their reach . In other words, religion should not be a repressive burden. (Williamson, pp.
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