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Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract =1723963 A voiding Double Truth, T wice David Kolb I'd like to begin by thanking the organizers of this conference for their kind invitation. It has been a real excitement and pleasure to come to Sydney , and the topic has provided me an occasion for much thought about Hegel, metaphysics, and religion. When I was first studying Hegel I encountered quite divergent readings of his views on religion. The teacher who first presented Hegel to me was a Jesuit, Quentin Lauer at Fordham University, who read Hegel as a Christian theologian providing a better metaphysical system for understanding the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation. When I studied at Y ale Kenley Dove read Hegel as the first thoroughly atheistic  philosopher , who presented the conditions of thought without reference to any foundational absolute being. Meanwhile, also at Y ale, John Findlay read us a deeply Neoplatonic Hegel who taught about absolute forms held in a cosmic mind. In giving you my own reading I want to talk about the ways Hegel redefines both metaphysics and religion. I would like to approach these issues by way of the medieval controversy over double truth. In the 13th century Aristotle's scientific and philosophical texts were  becoming available from the Muslims in Spain. These texts offered a well-argued, systemati c, and more comprehensive scientific view of the universe and its god. Reading Aristotle, people quickly realized that his 1

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