Goethe and Hegel faced the religious fact very early. Although each one reworked the inheritance in his own way, both came to similar conclusions: criticism of the Positivity of the religion and argument of an ethics not distanced from the roots of life. However, Goethe chose the path of intuition and artistic creation in his evolution from a naive adoration of Nature to a kind of spinozist pantheism; while Hegel opted for an abstract speculation, from his critique of positive religion to his integration in the System of the Phenomenology,