Freedom and reflection : Hegel and the logic of agency / Christopher Yeomans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeomans, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages)

Other Title:

Hegel and the logic of agency

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There are many insightful discussions of Hegel's practical philosophy that emphasize the uniqueness of his expressivist and social theory of agency, but few recognize that these two aspects of Hegel's theory of the will are insufficient to avoid the traditional problem of free will. In fact, the problem can easily be shown to recur in the very language used to express why Hegel's theory is a theory of freedom at all. In part, this lack of recognition results from the fact that there has not yet been a study of Hegel's theory of the will that has formulated the problem against the background of

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1: Hegel and Free Will; 1.1: Hegel and the Traditional Problem of Free Will; 1.2: Hegel's Theory of Free Will; 2: The Problem of Expression as the Problem of Reflection; 2.1: Introduction; 2.2: Internal and External Determination in the Doctrine of Being; 2.3: Internal and External Determination in the Concept of Reflection; 2.4: Elements of the Theory of Reflection in Hegel's Moral Psychology; 2.5: The Shape of the Project; Part II: Agency as Self-Explanation

3: The Externality of Explanations and the Problem of an Infinite Regress4: Self-Explanation as the Basic Form of Explanation; 4.1: Ground as Expression; 4.2: Internal and External Determination in Explanations; 4.3: The Argument for Explanation as a Three-Term Relation; 4.4: The Role of Conditions as the Third Term in Explanation; 4.5: The Infection of Internality by the Conditions; 4.6: Holism About Explanation; 5: The Agent as a Locus of Self-Explanation; Part III: Agency as True Necessity; 6: The Necessity of Action and the Problem of Alternate Possibilities

7: Modality in Hegel's Logic7.1: Modality as the Structure of Self-Expression; 7.2: Contingency as a Unity of Actuality and Possibility; 7.3: The Modal Continuum; 7.4: The Necessity of Alternate Possibilities; 8: Agency as True Necessity; 8.1: Willkür and Wille; 8.2: The Modal Argument for Hegel's Conception of the Free Will; Part IV: Agency as Teleological Reciprocal Interaction; 9: The Mechanistic Challenge and the Problem of Passivity; 10: Teleology, Mechanism, and Causation; 10.1: The Question of Priority; 10.2: Productivity as Expression; 10.3: Freedom as Substance-Causation

10.4: The Passivity of Mechanical Causation10.5: Causation as Reciprocal Interaction; 10.6: Reciprocal Interaction as Freedom; 10.7: The Teleological Form of Reciprocal Self-Determination; 11: Teleological Agency; 11.1: Arguments Against Determinism; 11.2: A Teleological Philosophy of Action; 12: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-020869-4

1-283-42729-X

9786613427298

0-19-979467-7

OCLC:

774276117