The Path to Atheism via God.

This raises the following question: how could Kojève develop his later atheistic philosophy vis-à-vis the Nothing and atheist-theist dispute over it, given that he acknowledged atheism has its fair share of paradoxes? In Europe in the I annus horriibilis i of 1933, Edmund Husserl wrote in an unpublished manuscript: "If such a science (phenomenology) indeed leads to God, its road would be to an atheistic God." For Kojève, this explains why theism has failed to I conceptualise i a rational God via the trinitarian "synthesis" (181 n. 189).[9] To understand this paradoxicality of theism, Kojève attempts to identify the phenomenological encounter that gives rise to it. Kojève's I philosophical i writings after the Hegel Course were all proclaimed by him to be "introductions" (of a "pedagogical" nature) to the " I Système du Savoir i ." 18 Wittgenstein, I Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus i , sec. 6.5-7, 150-51. 19 Kojève discusses "silence" in the I Introduction to the Reading of Hegel i , 83-84, 91, 234; cf. [Extracted from the article]

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