Theory of Right Duties and Religion Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION III. THEORY OF RELIGION. [section III. Theory Op Religion. §71. The Moral Law as the Eternal Reason in Us—Disparateness of our Individuality and Th... more »is Reason. §72. Belief as the Immediate Knowledge of the Absolute Essence. §73. Knowledge of the Absolute not dependent on Demonstration. §75. Religion. §76. God. §77. Attributes of God. §78. Evil as Alienation from God. §79. The Reconciliation of God with the World. §80. Service of God ] §7i- The moral law in us is the eternal law of reason, which we must irresistibly respect and by which we feel ourselves indissolubly bound. But just as immediately do we perceive the incommensu- rateness of our individuality with it, recognize it as higher than ourselves, as an essence independent of us, self-subsisting, absolute. §72- This absolute essence is present in our pure consciousness and reveals itself to us therein. The knowledge of it as produced in us by it, is immediate for us and may, in so far, be termed faith. §73- Elevation above the sensible and finite- coEstitutes negatively, it is true, on our part the production of this knowledge, but only in so far as the sensible and finite has been at the same time forsaken and recognized in its nullity. But this knowledge of the absolute is itself an absolute and! immediate knowledge and can not have anything finite as its positive ground nor be produced by something not itself, as a demonstration. §74- This knowledge must determine itself more nearly; it must not remain inner feeling, belief int the indefinite essence in general, but become a real!apprehension of the same. The real apprehension of God is not above reason for reason is only a reflection of God and essentially a knowledge of the absolute; but that apprehension is above the mere understanding, the know...« less