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Immanence
Overview
The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. It is held by some philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence. Immanence is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the mundane. It is often contrasted with theories of transcendence, in which the divine is seen to be outside the material world.
Religions offer differing explanations of the relationship between immanence and transcendence. For example:
casting immanence as a characteristic of a transcendent God (common in Abrahamic religions),
subsuming immanent personal gods in a greater transcendent being (such as with Brahman in Hinduism), or
approaching the question of transcendence as something that can only be answered through an appraisal of immanence.
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Consequently, man (besides being a reasonable being) is also a sensitive being, because he possesses sense-organs. In many respects, he is also a vegetative being; for his body feeds and grows just like a plant. All these powers (reason, sensibility, growth), therefore act together in the man; but it is the best of them that characterizes the totality of the man (so that he is called a "reasonable being"). On…
Plotinus, Plotinos
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With what is here called faith or immediate knowledge must also be identified inspiration, the heart's revelations, the truths implanted in man by nature, and also in particular, healthy reason or Common Sense, as it is called. All these forms agree in adopting as their leading principle the immediacy, or self-evident way, in which a fact or body of truths is presented in consciousness.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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For religion is just this universal domain[184], in virtue of which the _one_ concrete totality of the World comes to each man in union with himself, as his essential substance, while it remains no less for consciousness the essential truth of Nature. And it is this profounder truth of the Real which alone proves itself invincible over all that is merely particular and finite, being as it is the one absolute harmony…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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Philosophers who discussed Immanence
- Gilles Deleuze
- Wonhyo
- Giorgio Agamben
- Walt Whitman
- Baruch Spinoza
- Plotinus
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Karl Löwith
- Louis Althusser
- Giovanni Gentile
- James McCosh
- Michel Henry
- Kiyoshi Miki
- Ionel Gherea
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Jesus
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Book of Genesis
- Anima mundi
- Thomas Carlyle
- Giordano Bruno
- Hinduism
- Philosophy
- Abrahamic religions
- Abraham
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Chabad
- Jewish philosophy
- Kabbalah
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi
- Metaphysics
- Personal god
- Monism
- Mind
- Monotheism
- Moses
Place in the tradition
Part of Emanationism.