The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy - Couverture rigide

Geiger, Ido

 
9780804754248: The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0804754241 ISBN 13 : 9780804754248
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the notice of its interpreters. It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual progress of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process--his philosophical end is to give a rational account of the end of this process, namely, modern ethical life. This overlooks the question of how a new shape of ethical life is founded. Hegel holds that the founding act of a new form of life is the act of an unwitting agent, and it necessarily meets with the violent incomprehension of the society it transforms. The tragedy of Antigone, the French Revolution and its aftermath (the Terror and the Napoleonic Wars), and wars generally are all examples of the tragically violent foundation of a new form of life. Moreover, Hegel does not claim that the foundation of modern ethical life is a fact of the past--it lies in the future.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ido Geiger is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804754241
ISBN 13 
9780804754248
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
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