The Elevation of the Thinking Spirit Towards God or the Logical Nature of the Concept in Hegel’s Lectures on the Proof of God’s Existstence

Abstract

The article investigates the existing relations in Hegel’s philosophy between the proofs of God’s existence and the human spirit elevation toward God. Two points will be highlighted: the understanding of God as spirit and the logic nature of the Concept from the way Hegel discusses both, the historical necessity of the “proofs” of God’s existence, emerged with the Christianism and the logic-especulative sense of the two main modalities of these proofs: the ontological proof and the cosmological proof.