Glaube, Liebe, Verzeihung : Hegel und die Religio
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 7485
- Type
- D - Journal article
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- Title of journal
- Hegel-Studien
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- First page
- 13
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0073-1587
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- In this article I first consider Richard Dawkins’s view that religious faith is a form of irrational fanaticism. I then argue that Hegel has a more subtle understanding of faith. I show that, for Hegel, faith and reason are not only compatible, but necessarily belong together, and that faith itself is inseparable from forgiveness and love, rather than fanatical intolerance. In conclusion, I argue that Hegel’s this-worldly understanding of “eternal life” presents a serious challenge to the piety that hopes for other-worldly compensation for the woes of this life.
