Hegel held four lecture courses on the philosophy of religion; this first volume of the planned three-volume edition contains the first two lectures from the summer semesters of 1821 and 1824. For the first lecture, Hegel used the manuscript edited in Volume 17 of the Gesammelte Werke; the pagination of this edition is provided here to facilitate comparison between the manuscript and the transcripts. While the 1821 lecture is only documented by a single transcript, the 1824 lecture is preserved in six transcripts. The edited text of this lecture is based on the transcript by v. Griesheim, with variants provided from the other five transcripts, which either complement or explain the edited text, or in some cases, correct it.
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