This important new study offers a powerful exposition of the ethical theory underlying Hegel's philosophy of society, politics, and history. Professor Wood shows how Hegel applies his theory to such topics as human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and the authority of individual conscience. The book includes a critical discussion of Hegel's treatment of other moral philosophers (especially Kant, Fichte and Fries), provides an account of the controversial concept of "ethical life," and shows the relation between the theory and Hegel's critical assessment of modern social institutions. The book is nontechnical and should interest anyone concerned with Hegel's ethical and political thought, including philosophers, political scientists, intellectual historians and students of German culture.
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"This is an excellent treatment of a subject which has never been adequately dealt with in English...His book will be the most important study of Hegelian ethics since Bradley's Ethical Studies." H.S. Harris, York University
"Wood's book is outstanding and will help to move Hegel to the centre of current discussion in ethical and political theory." Michael Inwood, Times Literary Supplement
"Access to Hegel's thought is rarely easy. W. deserves high praise for leading the reader along paths that make it possible to locate key Hegelian concepts in relation both to the context in which Hegel proposed them and to a set of issues that, as much as in Hegel's day, still engender lively debate." Philip J. Rossi, Theological Studies
"Wood's book is outstanding and will help to move Hegel to the centre of current discussion in ethical and political theory." Michael Inwood, Times Literary Supplement
"Access to Hegel's thought is rarely easy. W. deserves high praise for leading the reader along paths that make it possible to locate key Hegelian concepts in relation both to the context in which Hegel proposed them and to a set of issues that, as much as in Hegel's day, still engender lively debate." Philip J. Rossi, Theological Studies
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Hegel's philosophy of society, politics and history is exposed to ethical debate on human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and authority of individual conscience.
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there are two sides to absolute freedom; reflective action and relation of right. this book gives you "relation of right" in a precise and understandable way. graduate or post-grad level. highly recommended
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If there is any hope for ethics as a branch of rational inquiry, it lies in showing how ethical conceptions and a theory of the human good can be grounded in human self-understanding. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
historicized naturalism, emptiness charge, rabble mentality, modern ethical life, objectively grounded principle, universal law test, determinate particularity, formal conscience, preference naturalism, determinate desires, empirical desires, speculative meaning, world historical individuals, speculative logic, existent right, retributivist theory, ethical order, subjective freedom, intention accord, rational social order, external sphere, abstract right, ethical disposition, pure duty, moral subjectivity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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If there is any hope for ethics as a branch of rational inquiry, it lies in showing how ethical conceptions and a theory of the human good can be grounded in human self-understanding. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
historicized naturalism, emptiness charge, rabble mentality, modern ethical life, objectively grounded principle, universal law test, determinate particularity, formal conscience, preference naturalism, determinate desires, empirical desires, speculative meaning, world historical individuals, speculative logic, existent right, retributivist theory, ethical order, subjective freedom, intention accord, rational social order, external sphere, abstract right, ethical disposition, pure duty, moral subjectivity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 35 pages
- Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel on 6 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Faith and Knowledge (English and German Edition) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Front Matter, page 168, and Back Matter
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on page 156, and page 163
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- Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason by Terry Pinkard on 4 pages
- Hegel's Ethics of Recognition by Robert R. Williams in Front Matter, page 251, and Back Matter
- Hegel's Idea of Freedom (Oxford Philosophical Monographs) by Alan Patten on page 87, page 90, and page 164
- Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency (Modern European Philosophy) by Allen Speight on page 46, page 123, and Back Matter
- Altared Ground; Levinas, History, Violence by Brian Schroeder in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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