Hegel's conscience / Dean Moyar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyar, Dean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conscience.

Ethics.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also to provide an analysis that makes Hegel's ethics accessible for all scholars working in ethical and political philosophy.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Citations and Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Hegelian Ethics?""; ""2. Interpretive Parameters""; ""3. Hegel�s Problem""; ""1. Self-Consciousness and Agency""; ""1.1. First-Person Authority and Responsible Action""; ""1.2. Conscience in History""; ""1.3. Immanent Negativity""; ""1.4. Negativity and Ethical Content""; ""1.5. A Performative View of Practical Reason""; ""2. Motivating and Justifying Reasons""; ""2.1. The Reasons Identity Condition""; ""2.2. Internal Reasons and the Knight of Virtue""

""2.3. The Implicit Universality and Objectivity of Internal Reasons""""2.4. Freedom and the Appeal to Reason""; ""2.5. Conscience and Motivating Reasons""; ""2.6. The Ambiguity of Conscience""; ""2.7. The Complex Reasons Identity Condition""; ""3. Holism and Detachment""; ""3.1. Subjectivism and Detachment""; ""3.2. Self-Expression and Interpretive Authority""; ""3.3. The Holism of Conscience""; ""3.4. Abuses of Holism""; ""3.5. Autonomy as Non-Detachment""; ""4. Deliberation and Justification""; ""4.1. Moral Conflict""; ""4.2. Law and Value""; ""4.3. Moral Reflection and Skepticism""

""4.4. Conscience as Judgment""""4.5. Fallibilism and the Externality of Judgment""; ""4.6. The Disjunctive Inference""; ""5. Mutual Recognition""; ""5.1. Recognition and the Moments of Action""; ""5.2. Valuing the Purposes of Conscience""; ""5.3. The Language of Conscience""; ""5.4. Ethical Purposes and the Value of Humanity""; ""5.5. Humanity and the Mutual Recognition of Forgiveness""; ""5.6. Objective Spirit and the Transition to Ethical Life""; ""6. Practical Reason in Ethical Life""; ""6.1. The Family""; ""6.2. Civil Society and the Need for Conscience""; ""6.3. The Legal System""

""6.4. The State and the Individual""""6.5. Sovereignty and Deliberative Processes""; ""6.6. Our Actuality""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-937155-5

1-283-05772-7

9786613057723

0-19-974187-5

9780190453008

OCLC:

729550894