In the years after Hegel’s death there was an intense debate about Hegel’s view regarding the idea of immortality. Many conflicting arguments among Hegelian philosophers concerning this topic caused havoc in the philosophical community and reinforced the belief that Hegel’s work is filled with internal inconsistencies and, therefore, has to be rejected as philosophical paradox. Toward these positions, this paper investigates the idea of immortality as it arises in Hegel’s works and evolves throughout his system. Our research is based on the rhetoric schema arsis-thesis, according to which we firstly reject an argument by disproving its position and then we prove its validity by adopting an alternative viewpoint towards it. More specifically,
