ABSTRACT
Hegel's view of creation extends his Trinitarian absolute and the logic it exhibits. Self-proclaimed atheist Karl Marx was especially irritated by Hegel's claim at the end of his Logic that the Idea lets itself go into nature. The chapter concerns creation with respect to God, hence its witness to the ultimate origin and to ontological coming to be. Hegel speaks of creation relative to the second moment of the trinity. Second moment here refers less to the immanent self-creation of God, as to the movement from that immanent eternal life to the world of finitude. The inclusive Trinitarian monism governs this second movement also, and hence the overreaching character of Hegel's Trinitarians must be kept in mind. In Greek religion, Fate names the power above gods and men, but this excessive power received the name of God in Judaism, and Hegel is willing to admit here we have God for the first time.
