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Abstract
This article examines what Hegel’s political philosophy might have to offer to contemporary thinking on transcendence. Hegel’s thinking is seen to be significant because it explores the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the context of a modern consciousness that is secular in orientation, and relatively alienated from spiritual experience. Focusing on the experience of love in childhood, and the ongoing way in which love manifests itself in the life cycle of the modern individual, Hegel offers an idea of transcendence that is rooted in our everyday, secular existence, and expressed in our ethical and political engagement with others. It seeks to comprehend how we might overcome the rigid duality between finite and infinite, secular and religious, mundane and extraordinary, within our own existence.
Résumé
Cet article se penche sur ce que la philosophie politique de Hegel pourrait offrir à la pensée contemporaine sur le sujet de la transcendance. La pensée de Hegel est considérée comme significative puisqu’elle explore la possibilité de transcendance spirituelle dans le contexte d’une conscience moderne d’orientation laïque, relativement étrangère à l’expérience spirituelle. En se basant sur l’expérience de l’amour dans l’enfance et sur la manière qu’a l’amour de se manifester continuellement dans le cycle de vie de l’individu moderne, Hegel propose une idée de la transcendance qui prend racine dans notre vie quotidienne, laïque, et qui s’exprime dans notre engagement éthique et politique envers les autres. Il vise à comprendre la manière dont nous pourrions surmonter la dualité rigide entre le fini et l’infini, entre le laïque et le religieux, entre l’ordinaire et l’extraordinaire, à l’intérieur de notre propre existence.
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