The Systemic-hermeneutical Adoptive Turn of Hegel's Idea of Spirit and Its Theological Meaning: An Outline

Philosophy and Culture 38 (3):7-28 (2011)
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In the Western intellectual and cultural history, the spirit of the concept can be described as diverse and integrated, that is a heritage that is innovative, but also full of philosophy and theology, dialectical process of the concept of intercultural integration. If the West's understanding of this concept in the history of his generation in the history of modern thought of the effect, for this concept in the overall context of Western civilization in the proper sense of its value, but also of contemporary East-West intercultural dialogue helpful. This idea of linking to the spirit of this concept in the history of Western thought during the peak period, which is the subject of modern philosophy on the development of consciousness - German idealism, especially Hegel's philosophy of God, the core of an integrated system of philosophizing which generates its mental concepts are. Then you try more complex history of Western thought the idea of the effect of the historical context in a dialectic of - system of hermeneutics of the spirit world, spiritual and cultural concepts and theories, as the new century, what intercultural dialogue speculative. In the intellectual history of Western culture the idea of ​​spirit is a intercultural fusion-concept which develops in the dialectical process of plurality and unity, tradition and innovation, philosophy and theology. If the genesis and development of this idea in the Western history and its effective history in the modem thought is understood, it would be valuable for the meaning and significance of this idea in the whole context of Western culture and helpful for the intercultural dialog between Western and Eastern culture. This essay attempts to give a general idea for the genesis of initial meanings of spirit in its western-cultural origins through a intellectual-historical approach of philosophical hermeneutics or the thinking-way of the so-called history of idea. The thought-process of this essay shall go through the summit of the idea of spirit in the Western intellectual history, namely in the development of the theory of subjectivity in the modem age, the German idealism, particularly Hegel's theological-philosophical synthesis-system, in which genesis and development the core-concept is the idea of ​​spirit. Finally in this complex context from Western intellectual history to the effective history it would be tried to conceptualize the idea of ​​spirit and a frame-work for a theory of spiritual-culture-world in the dialectical-systemic hermeneutics, which shall also introduce a hermeneutical pattern for the intercultural dialog between Eastern and Western culture in the new era

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