Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life
Title | Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Andreja Novakovic |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2017-08-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107175968 |
This book investigates the roles of habit and reflection in Hegel's account of subjective freedom in an objectively rational social order.
Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life
Title | Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Andreja Novakovic |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2017-08-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1316813223 |
What does it take to be subjectively free in an objectively rational social order? In this book Andreja Novakovic offers a fresh interpretation of Hegel's account of ethical life by focusing on his concept of habit or 'second nature'. Novakovic addresses two central and difficult issues facing any interpretation of his Philosophy of Right: why Hegel thinks that it is is better to relate unreflectively to the laws of ethical life, and which forms of reflection, especially critical reflection, remain available within ethical life. Her interpretation draws on numerous parts of Hegel's system, particularly on his 'Anthropology' and his Phenomenology of Spirit, and also explores connections between his account and those of other philosophers. Her aim is to argue that Hegel has a compelling conception of the ordinary ethical standpoint which takes seriously both the virtues and the perils of reflection.
Second Nature and Ethical Life
Title | Second Nature and Ethical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Andreja Novakovic |
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Release | 2012 |
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This dissertation investigates the status of reflection in Hegel's account of modern ethical life. I ask, on the one hand, why Hegel places so much significance on unreflective attitudes, and on the other, which forms of reflection remain compatible with what he calls the habit of the ethical. This question exposes crucial commitments underlying Hegel's project in the Philosophy of Right and interrogates the flexibility of his account and its openness to normative change. Yet my inquiry also has broader implications for the nature of social criticism. I argue that even reflection of the overtly critical variety emerges from and remains indebted to our habitual comportment and that this is why it must retain a valued place in ethical life.
Hegel for Social Movements
Title | Hegel for Social Movements PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Blunden |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2019-06-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004395849 |
Hegel for Social Movements by Andy Blunden is an introduction to the reading of Hegel for social change activists, focusing a non-metaphysical reading of the Logic and the Philosophy of Right.
The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life
Title | The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Ido Geiger |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780804754248 |
It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual process of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process. This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the notice of its interpreters.
Hegel's Naturalism
Title | Hegel's Naturalism PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Pinkard |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199330077 |
Terry Pinkard draws on Hegel's central works as well as his lectures on aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of history in this deeply informed and original exploration of Hegel's naturalism. As Pinkard explains, Hegel's version of naturalism was in fact drawn from Aristotelian naturalism: Hegel fused Aristotle's conception of nature with his insistence that the origin and development of philosophy has empirical physics as its presupposition. As a result, Hegel found that, although modern nature must be understood as a whole to be non-purposive, there is nonetheless a place for Aristotelian purposiveness within such nature. Such a naturalism provides the framework for explaining how we are both natural organisms and also practically minded (self-determining, rationally responsive, reason-giving) beings. In arguing for this point, Hegel shows that the kind of self-division which is characteristic of human agency also provides human agents with an updated version of an Aristotelian final end of life. Pinkard treats this conception of the final end of "being at one with oneself" in two parts. The first part focuses on Hegel's account of agency in naturalist terms and how it is that agency requires such a self-division, while the second part explores how Hegel thinks a historical narration is essential for understanding what this kind of self-division has come to require of itself. In making his case, Hegel argues that both the antinomies of philosophical thought and the essential fragmentation of modern life are all not to be understood as overcome in a higher order unity in the "State." On the contrary, Hegel demonstrates that modern institutions do not resolve such tensions any more than a comprehensive philosophical account can resolve them theoretically. The job of modern practices and institutions (and at a reflective level the task of modern philosophy) is to help us understand and live with precisely the unresolvability of these oppositions. Therefore, Pinkard explains, Hegel is not the totality theorist he has been taken to be, nor is he an "identity thinker," à la Adorno. He is an anti-totality thinker.
Hegel on Ethics and Politics
Title | Hegel on Ethics and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Pippin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2004-03-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139449656 |
This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community, perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. The dissemination of this work will be of enormous value to Anglophone students and scholars of the history of German philosophy. This collection brings together in translation the finest post-war German language scholarship on Hegel's social and political philosophy, concentrating on the Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Many of the essays appear in English here for the first time; all are translated anew.