Hegel's Ladder vol 2 by H. S. Harris

Author:H. S. Harris [Harris, H. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780872202788
Publisher: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub., c1997.
Published: 2011-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

That description of the transition points to Jacobi's "immediate knowledge" as the comprehensive inversion that is needed. The inversion is simply from what comprehends us, to what we comprehend. We move directly and immediately from the standpoint of moral Understanding, which takes its object to be Beyond, to that of Reason, which knows that its object is "within." But we are also moving back to the level of "immediate certainty"--whereas the Holy Will was the infinite object of moral Understanding. We have only to remember the excesses of self-actualizing Reason, and the shiftiness of the rational individuality that is "real in and for itself" in its own eyes, to realize that the absolute content will not stay "locked up" in the dutiful self. God is no man's prisoner. Our initial moral sincerity turned into hypocrisy; we have inverted that hypocrisy into a properly conscientious sincerity again, now that we have recognized it. But we shall find that this is only the first "displacement" of the hypocrisy that we have unmasked. The God within us is still the Almighty Pardoner even if he cannot now make the Heaven and Earth of nature pass away for us. His whole existence as self-certain knowledge must now unfold; and the unfolding will bear a necessary resemblance to the story that we already know.

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