ABSTRACT
Absolute? If it cannot, the relation between the two cannot be non-relation. Hegel himself denies such a view. But, then, shall we say that the Absolute and the world are mutually supporting? Hegel gives an affirmative answer.1 But here arises the difficulty. The concept of creation has a dynamic content. What is created has something new in it. Otherwise, the word creation would be meaningless. But if the Absolute is as necessary for the world as the world is for the Absolute, nothing can be created. The Absolute stands as something beside the world. Moreover, if the Absolute and the world are mutually supporting, the Absolute loses its nature as an ultimate synthesis. And we have to look for another synthesis which comprehends both this Absolute and the world. But the same difficulty arises even at that level.
