HEGEL, Georg W. F. 2022. Creer y saber, o la filosofía de la reflexión de la subjetividad en la totalidad de sus formas, como filosofía de Kant, de Fichte y de Jacobi. Ed. bilingüe de María del Carmen Paredes Martín. Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme. : Reseña

Abstract

Hegel's article Faith and Knowledge (Glauben und Wissen) from the Jena period was first published in 1802 in the Kritische Journal der Philosophie in Tübingen. In addition to the previous Spanish versions, those by Jorge Aurelio Díaz and those by Vicente Serrano, Spanish-speaking readers now also have the commendable bilingual edition prepared by Dr. María del Carmen Paredes Martín and published by Ediciones Sígueme. The reviewed work contains a succinct presentation by Dra. Paredes Martín, Hegel's text itself and a valuable commentary from the editor. As for Jena's writing, it has as its backdrop the faith-reason opposition openly unleashed by the Enlightenment. There the author reviews the three philosophies of the reflection of subjectivity, namely: the philosophy of Kant, that of Jacobi and that of Fichte. In short, Hegel disapproves of the fideistic agnosticism of these philosophies because they limit knowledge to the finite realm and consider reason powerless on its own to know the absolute, relegating it exclusively to the domain of faith. The German philosopher thus suggests the need for a new rationality capable of overcoming the limitations of understanding. Another relevant aspect of the article is the criticism directed at the metaphysics of finitude. As is known, in the face of the realism of finitude, Hegel would later explicitly propose an idealism of finitude. Finally, the much-discussed "death of God" in Believing and Knowing represents a symbolic constellation related, among other things, to the demise of the metaphysics of finitude and the absence of divinity. For the rest, we recommend reading Believing and Knowing, not only in itself, but as a preface to delve into Hegel's great work.