Hegel S Idea Of Freedom

Author : Paul Franco
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300093225

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Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom by Paul Franco Pdf

Human freedom is the central theme of modern political philosophy, and G. W. F. Hegel offers perhaps the most profound and systematic modern attempt to understand the state as the realization of human freedom. In this comprehensive examination of Hegel's philosophy of freedom, Paul Franco traces the development of Hegel's ideas of freedom, situates them within his general philosophical system, and relates them to the larger tradition of modern political philosophy. Franco then applies Hegel's understanding of liberty to certain problems in contemporary political theory. He argues that Hegel offers a powerful reformulation of liberalism that escapes many of the problematic assumptions of traditional liberal doctrine and yet avoids falling into the romantic and relativistic excesses of a substantial communitarianism. Devoting the major portion of his attention to Hegel's masterpiece the Philosophy of Right, published in 1821, Franco provides a clear and nontechnical guide to the challenging arguments Hegel presents. Franco establishes the necessary context within which to understand the work and draws on Hegel's other writings, including the unpublished lecture notes, to illuminate it. For the Hegel specialist as well as the reader with a more general interest in political philosophy and modern intellectual history, this book offers significant insights into Hegel's ideas on the theme of human liberty.

Author : Alan Patten,Associate Professor of Political Science Alan Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198237709

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Hegel's Idea of Freedom by Alan Patten,Associate Professor of Political Science Alan Patten Pdf

Alan Patten presents an original interpretation of Hegel's idea of freedom and offers answers to a number of central questions about his ethical and political thought. Freedom is the value that Hegel most admired and the core of his social philosophy.

Author : Karen Ng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190947644

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Hegel's Concept of Life by Karen Ng Pdf

Karen Ng sheds new light on Hegel's famously impenetrable philosophy. She does so by offering a new interpretation of Hegel's idealism and by foregrounding Hegel's Science of Logic, revealing that Hegel's theory of reason revolves around the concept of organic life. Beginning with the influence of Kant's Critique of Judgment on Hegel, Ng argues that Hegel's key philosophical contributions concerning self-consciousness, freedom, and logic all develop around the idea of internal purposiveness, which appealed to Hegel deeply. She charts the development of the purposiveness theme in Kant's third Critique, and argues that the most important innovation from that text is the claim that the purposiveness of nature opens up and enables the operation of the power of judgment. This innovation is essential for understanding Hegel's philosophical method in the Differenzschrift (1801) and Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), where Hegel, developing lines of thought from Fichte and Schelling, argues against Kant that internal purposiveness constitutes cognition's activity, shaping its essential relation to both self and world. From there, Ng defends a new and detailed interpretation of Hegel's Science of Logic, arguing that Hegel's Subjective Logic can be understood as Hegel's version of a critique of judgment, in which life comes to be understood as opening up the possibility of intelligibility. She makes the case that Hegel's theory of judgment is modelled on reflective and teleological judgments, in which something's species or kind provides the objective context for predication. The Subjective Logic culminates in the argument that life is a primitive or original activity of judgment, one that is the necessary presupposition for the actualization of self-conscious cognition. Through bold and ambitious new arguments, Ng demonstrates the ongoing dialectic between life and self-conscious cognition, providing ground-breaking ways of understanding Hegel's philosophical system.

Author : Joshua D. Goldstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402041918

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Hegel's Idea of the Good Life by Joshua D. Goldstein Pdf

In Hegel’s Idea of the Good Life, Joshua D. Goldstein presents the first book-length study of the development and meaning of Hegel’s account of human flourishing. This volume will be welcomed by philosophers and political theorists seeking to engage with the details of Hegel’s early and mature social thought. By bringing Hegel’s earliest writings into dialogue with his Philosophy of Right, Goldstein argues that Hegel’s mature political philosophy should be understood as a response to his youthful failure to build a sustainable account of the good life upon the foundations of ancient virtue. This study reveals how Hegel’s mature response integrates ancient concerns for the well-ordered life and modern concerns for autonomy in a new, robust conception of selfhood that can be actualized across the full expanse of the modern political community.

Author : Royal Institute of Philosophy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : UCAL:B4410963

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Reason and Reality by Royal Institute of Philosophy Pdf

Author : Peter C. Hodgson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191626593

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Shapes of Freedom by Peter C. Hodgson Pdf

Peter C. Hodgson explores Hegel's bold vision of history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Following an introductory chapter on the textual sources, the key categories, and the modes of writing history that Hegel distinguishes, Hodgson presents a new interpretation of Hegel's conception of freedom. Freedom is not simply a human production, but takes shape through the interweaving of the divine idea and human passions, and such freedom defines the purpose of historical events in the midst of apparent chaos. Freedom is also a process that unfolds through stages of historical/cultural development and is oriented to an end that occurs within history (the 'kingdom of freedom'). The purpose and the process of history are tragic, however, because history is also a 'slaughterhouse' that shatters even the finest human creations and requires a constant rebuilding. Hegel's God is not a supreme being or 'large entity' but the 'true infinite' that encompasses the finite. History manifests the rule of God ('providence'), and it functions as the justification of God ('theodicy'). But the God who rules in and is justified by history is a crucified God who takes the suffering, anguish, and evil of the world into and upon godself, accomplishing reconciliation in the midst of ongoing estrangement and inescapable death. Shapes of Freedom addresses these themes in the context of present-day questions about what they mean and whether they still have validity.

Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521844843

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Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God by Robert M. Wallace Pdf

Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.

Author : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822332914

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Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo Pdf

DIVTranslated into English for the first time, this work portrays a different side of Hegel -- not just as a philosopher preoccupied with abstract ideas but a man deeply enmeshed and active in the pressing, concrete political issues of his time./div

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400835027

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The Pathologies of Individual Freedom by Axel Honneth Pdf

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that Honneth says underlies the ideas of Rawls and Habermas alike. Honneth argues that Hegel's theory contains an account of the psychological damage caused by placing too much emphasis on personal and moral freedom. Although these freedoms are crucial to the achievement of justice, they are insufficient and in themselves leave people vulnerable to loneliness, emptiness, and depression. Hegel argues that people must also find their freedom or "self-realization" through shared projects. Such projects involve the three institutions of ethical life--family, civil society, and the state--and provide the arena of a crucial third kind of freedom, which Honneth calls "communicative" freedom. A society is just only if it gives all of its members sufficient and equal opportunity to realize communicative freedom as well as personal and moral freedom.

Author : Judith N. Shklar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521143241

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Freedom and Independence by Judith N. Shklar Pdf

This book was written to guide students of political theory who want to understand Hegel's political ideas as they appear in The Phenomenology of Mind.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191604416

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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer Pdf

Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Frederick NEUHOUSER,Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674041455

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Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory by Frederick NEUHOUSER,Frederick Neuhouser Pdf

This study examines the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the central social institutions of the modern era are rational or good.

Author : Christopher Yeomans
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199794522

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Freedom and Reflection by Christopher Yeomans Pdf

While many interpreters hold that Hegel avoided the traditional problem of free will, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate possibilities constitutive of free agency.

Author : Will Dudley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521812504

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Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy by Will Dudley Pdf

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Author : Klaas Vieweg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004429277

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The Idealism of Freedom by Klaas Vieweg Pdf

In The Idealism of Freedom, Klaus Vieweg argues for a Hegelian turn in philosophy. Hegel's idealism of freedom contains a number of epoch-making ideas that articulate a new understanding of freedom, which still shape contemporary philosophy. Hegel establishes a modern logic, as well as the idea of a social state. With his distinction between civil society and the state he makes an innovative contribution to political philosophy. Hegel defends the idea of freedom for all in a modern society and is a sharp critic of every nationalism and racism. Vieweg's study introduces these ideas into perspectives on freedom in contemporary philosophy.