Ebook Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

As regards the rendering of the more strictly technical terms employed by Hegel, it has seemed advisable not to adhere rigidly to any one set of English words, but rather to vary the renderings according to the various changes of meaning, and occasionally to add an alternative English equivalent. Thus Begrifi' has usually been translated by Notion — a word which, however objec tionable otherwise, has already firmly fixed itself in our philosophical terminology; but conception has also been used for it in cases where there was no risk of mis understanding. Miss Sanderson had decided on idea as the least objectionable rendering of Vorstellung, — perhaps the most troublesome word in the Hegelian language, — and this the Editor has retained where the German word was used in a very special sense; but ordinary thought, popular conception, and other equivalent expressions have been freely employed; and in this connection the Editor desires to acknowledge the great assistance he has derived from the notes on Hegelian terms given by Professor Wallace in the valuable Prolegomena to his translation of Hegel's Logic.