ar68. In an essay attributed to Franz Lieber, a 19th Century German-American philosopher, Hegel's monism is described thus:
The quotation comes from "The Lieber Document" recovered by Walter M. Haushalter and reproduced in his book Mrs. Eddy Purloins from Hegel (A.A. Beauchamp 1936). Haushalter makes a convincing case that the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, cribbed extensively from Lieber's unpublished manuscript after he died in 1872. The first edition of her Science and Health came out in 1875.
Two errors were corrected in the quotation from Haushalter. This was achieved by comparing the printed text with a photograph of the handwritten manuscript supplied by Haushalter. Haushaulter had misread ungrounded as unbounded and unaccountably had inserted an [and] in front of man.
I reprinted Lieber's description because it usefully summarizes an important aspect of Hegel's thought, not because of the controversy regarding the founder of Christian Science.
For Hegel and his true disciples there is no truth, substance, life or intelligence in matter; all is infinite Mind. Thus matter has no reality; it is only the manifestation of Spirit. It is the transitory world of phenomena. Yet it is not a mere ungrounded show but based in our thought-constitution. Such matter will gradually disappear with progress of Spirit. Hegel's science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, God's entirety, and matter's nothingness. For him there are but two realities, God and the Ideas of God, in other words, Spirit and what it shadows forth. Properly, there is no physical science. The principal of science is God, Intelligence and not matter. Therefore science is spiritual, for God is Spirit and the Principle of the universe is man.Lieber goes on to say that, for Hegel, the account of the resurrection is a religious fable that reveals a deeper truth.
The quotation comes from "The Lieber Document" recovered by Walter M. Haushalter and reproduced in his book Mrs. Eddy Purloins from Hegel (A.A. Beauchamp 1936). Haushalter makes a convincing case that the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, cribbed extensively from Lieber's unpublished manuscript after he died in 1872. The first edition of her Science and Health came out in 1875.
Two errors were corrected in the quotation from Haushalter. This was achieved by comparing the printed text with a photograph of the handwritten manuscript supplied by Haushalter. Haushaulter had misread ungrounded as unbounded and unaccountably had inserted an [and] in front of man.
I reprinted Lieber's description because it usefully summarizes an important aspect of Hegel's thought, not because of the controversy regarding the founder of Christian Science.
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