67. Ibid.
68. See ibid., §196.
69. See ibid.
70. Ibid., §32.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid., §§197–230.
73. Ibid., §199. For Hegel’s critique of Spinoza, see also in particular his Science of Logic, pp. 465–505 and §151 of his Encyclopedia Logic.
74. For a related argument, see Martha Nussbaum’s brilliant critical analysis of ancient Skepticism in The Therapy of Desire, chapter 8. While Nussbaum does not mention Hegel, her insights have deep affinities with his.
75. Luther, in Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, vol. 10.I, p. 208.
76. See Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, §§788–808.
77. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, §123A. The full sentence reads: “There is nothing degrading about being alive, and we do not have the alternative of existing in a higher spirituality.” Hegel’s subordinate clause is potentially misleading, since it can give the impression that he is holding out the possibility of a “higher spirituality” that is inaccessible for us but which in and for itself would not be subject to the conditions of life. As Hegel makes clear elsewhere, however, life is an essential condition for any form of freedom and spiritual existence. The lesson of Hegel’s famous master-slave dialectic is that “self-consciousness learns that life is as essential to it as is pure self-consciousness” (Phenomenology of Spirit, §189; see also his Berlin Phenomenology, §432). The inseparability of the conditions of life from any conception of “the good” is established on the highest level in Hegel’s system in the final book of his Science of Logic.
78. For a detailed account of the Memphis strike and its historical context, see Honey’s indispensable book, Going Down Jericho Road.
79. King, quoted in Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 606.
80. Lawson, quoted in Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, p. 296.
81. The term “spiritual cause” was coined by Jensen Suther in the context of rethinking Hegel’s notion of causality; see Suther, “Hegel’s Materialism.” My own development of the notion in relation to secular faith is part of our ongoing philosophical dialogue.
82. King, Strength to Love, pp. 128–129.
83. Ibid., p. 129.
84. Ibid., p. 83.
85. Ibid., p. 129.
86. King, quoted in Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 39.
87. Ibid., p. 37.
88. King, “I See the Promised Land,” p. 282.
89. Ibid., p. 286.
90. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, pp. 303–304.
91. Honey, in King, “All Labor Has Dignity,” edited and introduced by Michael K. Honey, p. 170.
92. Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, p. 450.
93. Ibid., p. 25.
94. Ibid., p. 460.
95. Ibid., p. 461.
96. Ibid., p. 22.
97. Ibid., p. 18.
98. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, p. 55; quoted in ibid., p. 459.
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