Hegel's conscience / Dean Moyar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyar, Dean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Conscience.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xi, 220 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Contents:

1 Self-Consciousness and Agency 15

1.1 First-Person Authority and Responsible Action 16

1.2 Conscience in History 23

1.3 Immanent Negativity 28

1.4 Negativity and Ethical Content 33

1.5 A Performative View of Practical Reason 38

2 Motivating and Justifying Reasons 43

2.1 The Reasons Identity Condition 44

2.2 Internal Reasons and the Knight of Virtue 47

2.3 The Implicit Universality and Objectivity of Internal Reasons 53

2.4 Freedom and the Appeal to Reason 56

2.5 Conscience and Motivating Reasons 61

2.6 The Ambiguity of Conscience 68

2.7 The Complex Reasons Identity Condition 74

3 Holism and Detachment 81

3.1 Subjectivism and Detachment 82

3.2 Self-Expression and Interpretive Authority 87

3.3 The Holism of Conscience 93

3.4 Abuses of Holism 100

3.5 Autonomy as Non-Detachment 106

4 Deliberation and Justification 111

4.1 Moral Conflict 112

4.2 Law and Value 119

4.3 Moral Reflection and Skepticism 124

4.4 Conscience as Judgment 129

4.5 Fallibilism and the Externality of Judgment 135

4.6 The Disjunctive Inference 138

5 Mutual Recognition 143

5.1 Recognition and the Moments of Action 145

5.2 Valuing the Purposes of Conscience 150

5.3 The Language of Conscience 155

5.4 Ethical Purposes and the Value of Humanity 159

5.5 Humanity and the Mutual Recognition of Forgiveness 163

5.6 Objective Spirit and the Transition to Ethical Life 166

6 Practical Reason in Ethical Life 173

6.1 The Family 175

6.2 Civil Society and the Need for Conscience 180

6.3 The Legal System 185

6.4 The State and the Individual 191

6.5 Sovereignty and Deliberative Processes 197

6.6 Our Actuality 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195391992

0195391993

OCLC:

589017853