Kierkegaard-Hegel: The Religious Stage in Speculative Terms

MARÍA JOSÉ BINETTI

Kierkegaard and Great Philosophers – Acta Kierkegaardiana, Vol. 2

Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Kierkegaardianos - Universidad de Barcelona - Kierkegaard Society in Slovakia

Lugar: Mexico City - Sal’a - Barcelona; Año: 2007; p. 103 - 117

The article analyzes the central categories of Søren Kierkegaard’s religious stage—i. e. sin, faith, love, God—with regard to some central categories of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Logic, especially identity and difference. We support the hypothesis of a fundamental metaphysical convergence between Kierkegaard and Hegel manifested in their common interest in reaching spirit’s reconciled unity, through a dialectics of difference, which overcomes its abstract identity in a self-contradiction and mediates its own contradiction in a concrete difference, of which relational essence really constitutes a loving trinity.