Fé e saber: crítica simpática de Hegel a Jacob na Enciclopédia

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.038.e202633517

Keywords:

Hegel; Jacobi; Fé e Razão; Saber imediato; Dialética especulativa.

Abstract

The article investigates why Hegel, in §§ 61-78 of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, while criticizing the immediate knowledge defended by Jacobi—which separates faith and mediation, thereby reducing God to an abstraction—nonetheless acknowledges the significance of Jacobi’s philosophy of faith, showing how this tension becomes decisive for the dialectical development of his own philosophy. The aim is to demonstrate that, in rejecting Jacobi’s path of immediacy, Hegel does not abandon the principle of faith in reason, but rather reinterprets it, proposing in its place a dialectic that overcomes the one-sidedness of both immediacy and the mediation of the understanding. The method consists of analyzing Hegel’s treatment of the theme in four stages: (1) the critical premises of the understanding and the emergence of immediate knowledge; (2) what Hegel recognizes and criticizes in Jacobi’s immediate faith; (3) the overcoming of the opposition between immediate knowledge and mediation through dialectics; and (4) the history of the decomposition of immediate knowledge, which exposes its subjectivist and moralistic limits. It concludes that Hegel transforms faith into mediated and self-reflective reason, epistemologically justifying belief in reason and establishing the unity between subjectivity and objectivity.

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Author Biographies

Agemir Bavaresco, PUCRS

Professor do PPG Filosofia PUCRS. 

christian Iber, Universidade Livre de Berlim

Pesquisador da Universidade Livre de Berlim e ex-Professor adjunto da Universidade de Freiburg.

Published

2026-01-07

How to Cite

Bavaresco, A., & Iber, christian. (2026). Fé e saber: crítica simpática de Hegel a Jacob na Enciclopédia. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 38. https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.038.e202633517

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