DP & Hegel
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This document provides an overview of Hegel's philosophy of history and its relationship to the Divine Principle. It summarizes that Hegel viewed history as progressing dialectically towards freedom and reason, but that this view fails to account for the concept of the original human fall. The Divine Principle recognizes humanity's fallen nature and sees history as a providential process to restore humanity to its original, unfallen state. The document also discusses how Kant and other idealist philosophers built upon Hegel's philosophy in a way more aligned with the Principle's view of pursuing internal, spiritual values.
DP & Hegel
- 2. The Principle is eternal Spiritual Truth like the Bible. Its not a Book for the bookshelf, but spiritual rules for daily LIFE in the New Divine Age.
- 3. Both the Principle and the Bible are Spritually inspired books. Over the last 2000 years, many Poets, Composer and Philosophers have stumbled (become inspired) upon the eternal Divine truths that are in the Divine Principle and the Bible.
- 4. Hegel was one of those.
- 5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Born 1770 i Stuttgart i Baden-WĂźrttemberg, died 14 November 1831 i Berlin, german philosopher.
- 6. The Law-Governed Nature of History To date, there have been few religious leaders or scholars that could show, clearly, the law-governed nature of history. For example, the Christian providential view of history has not presented persuasive laws. In modern times, Hegel explained historical development according to the dialectic (i.e., idealistic dialectic), and asserted that history is the process of actualizing freedom through reason, and that, in the end, a rational state would be reached in which freedom would be fully realized. www.tparents.org/library/unification/books/euth/Euth08-01.htm
- 7. Quote SMM: "We are fighting against Satan. We must constantly be equipping ourselves in this fight by checking our original motivation. You need time to pray and practice correcting the original motivation. One thing is very clear, whether from the viewpoint of the Principle or traditional religious reasoning: we are all fallen people.
- 8. Therefore, the Hegelian dialectic is wrong. Hegel, seeing the conflict between the conscience and the ego centered or physical mind, concluded that such a "struggle" existed from the very beginning. He assumed that from the beginning, there was struggle in God's created world. He never understood the concept of the fall.
- 9. This became the fundamental problem: The Hegelian dialectic never presupposed an original humanity existing before the fall. But the reality is that the conflict between the conscience and physical mind came about because of the fall, and therefore, the fall was the origin of struggle. In the beginning, there was no contradictory nature within humankind.
- 10. After the fall, however, it has become essential for us to lead a religious life in order to maintain the course of the original mind and attain the original standard of God. You must remember âthe concept of the fall.â Study Divine Principle; the Human Fall
- 11. The Abel-Type View of Life Some people regard the progress of history from the medieval to the modern world as a process which has alienated people from God and religion. This is because they view history according to the Cain-type view of life.
- 12. The original nature, however, not only pursues external values; it also seeks internal values. As medieval people were prompted by their original nature to pursue internal values, a movement arose to revive Hebraism which bore fruit in the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation spawned philosophies and religious teachings which developed a multi-dimensional view of life seeking to realize the God-given, original nature of human beings. We call this the Abel-type view of life.
- 13. Even as the Cain-type view of life led away from God and faith, the Abel-type view of life guided modern people to seek God in a deeper and more thoughtful way.
- 14. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) analyzed philosophically the internal and external pursuits of the original nature, thus pioneering the Abel-type view of life in the philosophical sphere. In his Critical Philosophy, he assimilated the conflicting theories of empiricism and rationalism. According to Kant, our various sensations occur by contact with external objects.
- 15. These alone may give us the contents of cognition but cannot actualize the cognition itself. To have full cognition, one must possess certain forms of intuition and thought (which are a priori and transcendental) with which to unify the various contents (which are a posteriori and experiential) through a synthetic judgment.
- 16. These forms of intuition and thought are the very subjectivity of the self. Therefore, cognition is actualized when the various sensations coming from external objects are integrated and unified with one's subjective forms by the spontaneous action of thinking and understanding.
- 17. Thus, Kant overturned empiricism, which held that cognition is determined by external objects, and established a new theory that cognition is governed by the subjective mind. Kant's philosophy was succeeded by a number of idealist philosophers: Johann G. Fichte (1762-1814), Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854) and G.W. F. Hegel.
- 18. Hegel, in particular, pioneered a new philosophy based on the Hegelian dialectic. Their idealism solidified the Abel-type view of life in the field of philosophy. Ref. Divine Principle; Preparation for the Second Advent of the Messiah
- 19. Short Vocabulary: CBG = Cham Bumo Gyeong, Holy Textbook CSG = Cheon Seong Gyeong, Holy Textbook PHG = Pyeonghwa Gyeong (Peace Messages) CIG = Cheon Il Guk, Two persons become one, KoH CP = Cheong Pyeong, Spir. training ground Korea DP = Divine Principle, v1973 EDP = Exposition of Divine Principle, v1996 ODP = Original Divine Principle, 2008 KoH = Kingdom of Heaven LSA = Lord of Second Advent OT = Old Testament - NT = New Testament CT = Completed Testament TF = True Father, SMM = Sun Myung Moon TM = True Mother, Hak Ja Han Moon UC = Unification Church See also extended Vocabulary: http://www.slideshare.net/bdp003/vocabulary-uc
- 20. 1960 Blessing Level: Church True Parents Symbolic: Jesus Marriage Restored
- 21. 2003 Blessing Level: Nation True Parents of Heaven and Earth Symbolic: Physical Fall Restored
- 22. 2013 Blessing Level: Cosmic True Parents of Heaven and Earth and Humankind Symbolic: Spiritual Fall Restored
- 23. 2013 The Beginning of a New Age Cheon Il Guk â2 become 1â Bright Future
- 24. Finally Korea and the World recognizes the True Value of Holy True Parents: ⢠German TV channel ProSieben the Blessing 2016 March 13, 2016 https://vimeopro.com/europeanoffice/german-tv-channel-prosieben- featured-within -the-galileo-programme-the-blessing-2016-english-subtitles ⢠Belgian TV, Fly Me to the Moon Brussels, Belgium, 1. February 2016 https://vimeo.com/153953233?utm_source=No.+292+%2F+25.12.03+%283.+ February+2016%29 ⢠Korean TV 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqPLvPX-u6w
- 27. Jeju Island Korea Share the Gospel of Gospels Christ has Returned A New Bright Future for Sinless Mankind
- 28. More slides: Google for âslideshare bdp003â References: Main Source, Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96 Journal of Unification Studies Volume: www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Publications/
- 29. Remember the beauty in Gods nature is there to inspire us! Have a great Blessed week. Prepared for 2nd,3rd,4th... Gen. inspiration by Bengt de Paulis. Germany