Abstract

The purpose of this article is to justify a genuinely Hegelian interpretation of the religious dimension in Hegel's thought, particularly from the Phenomenology of Spirit. Both the left-wing and the right-wing Hegelians developed a univocal character, either reducing the Hegelian concept of the divine to the natural or historical reason, or by ignoring that the Hegelian conception of an immanent divinity was incompatible with the orthodox Christianity. We will analyze in detail the chapters in the Phenomenology of Spirit on the Enlightenment, in which the author distances himself more clearly from what could be a purely deistic religiosity. Finally, Hegel's proposal will consist of an organic state model, within which the religion would be accepted as part of the same ethical substance that underpins the laws of each community.