The Owl of Minerva

Volume 30, Issue 1, Fall 1998

Rob Devos
Pages 33-50

How Absolute is Hegel's Absolute Knowing?

I show first that freedom is the lever that brings about the sublation (Aufhebung) of religion into absolute knowing. Then I prove that exteriority, with its intrinsic contingency and opacity, is an essential moment of absolute knowing.