HUMAN AND DIVINE LAW. SOPHOCLES’ “ANTIGONE” IN HEGEL’S “PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT”

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the relationship between philosophy and literature on the example of Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”. The origin of literary works and philosophical works is based on the experience of everyday life. Literature presents this experience in images; philosophy elevates the experience of historical life into concepts. The result of philosophical reflection is the concept of being. In the history of European metaphysics, being is thought of as the being of being. The metaphysics of German idealism rises to the concept of Being as the basis of existence. This concept becomes the starting point in the famous turn in Heidegger’s thinking. The original Being is the will. In the interpretation of Hegel’s “Antigone”, being as a will appears in the form of concepts of human and divine law. The dialectical interaction of these laws forms the basis of the movement of the historical world of human life.