Faith and Trust. Hegel’s Interpretation of the Lifeworld Consciousnes

Abstract

For Hegel’s speculative thinking, what is usually called «Lebenswelt”»since Husserl and Alfred Schütz seems to have no particular systematic meaning. Everything that refers to a Lebenswelt-consciousness seems to appear only under its negative side: as deficient modes of knowledge, contaminated with sensibility, as absence of reason and of its concept –«unreason»- and therefore as a renounce to reason. According to Hegel, the immediate knowledge in the sense of Jacobi’s «belief», whose concept goes back in fact to the Common Sense-philosophy of Thomas Reid, «must also be identified [with] inspiration, the heart’s revelations, the truths implanted in man by nature, and also in particular, healthy reason or Common Sense, as it is called. All these forms agree in adopting as their leading principle the immediacy, or self-evident way, in which a fact or body of truths is presented in consciousness.»