Peter C. Hodgson provides a new translation of Hegel's 1829 lectures on the proofs of the existence of God, based on the definitive German edition. Coming late in his career, these lectures give us the great philosopher's final and most seasoned thinking on a topic of obvious significance to him, that of the reality status of God and ways of knowing God.

A translation of 'Vorlesungen èuber die Beweise vom Dasein Gottes' and 'Zum kosmologischen Gottesbeweis' in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 'Gesammelt Werke,' vol. 18, 'Vorlesungsmanuskripte II' (1816-1831), edited by Walter Jaeschke (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1995) ... Additional material on the teleological proof and the ontological proof is reprinted from 'Lectures on the philosophy of religion' edited by Peter C. Hodgson, translated by R.F. Brown, P.C. Hodgson, and J.M. Stewart (University of California Press, 1984-7).--T.p. vers