Deducing Panentheism from Hegel’s God via Whitehead’s “Philosophy of Organism”

Abstract

 Critics have passed Hegel’s discussion of God and Its relationship with the world as pantheistic. Even when there have been attempts by Hegelians, in recent times, to defend Hegel against the charge of pantheism, such attempts have not only become futile but also assist in making Heidegger’s ontotheological critique of Hegel lucid. The present inquiry, then seeks to reconstruct Hegel’s God as a distinct personality from the Absolute Spirit. Such an effort is made intelligible when Hegel is revised from the prism of Whitehead’s ‘philosophy of organism.’ If this reconstruction effort is successful, Hegel’s God will become panentheistic and not pantheistic. More so, the revision will also excuse Hegel from the onto-theological warrant initiated against him by Heidegger.