Hegel''s Practical Philosophy - Rational Agency As Ethical Life

Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Using a detailed analysis of key Hegelian texts! Robert Pippin reveals the bearing of Hegel's claims on many contemporary issues. Zusammenfassung Robert Pippin argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom. Using a detailed analysis of key Hegelian texts! he reveals the bearing of Hegel's claims on many contemporary issues! including much-discussed core problems in the liberal democratic tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Part I. Spirit: 1. Introduction: leading a free life; 2. Naturalness and mindedness: Hegel's compatibilism; 3. On giving oneself the law; 4. The actualization of freedom; Part II. Freedom: 5. The freedom of the will: Psychological dimensions; 6. The freedom of the will: social dimensions; Part III. Sociality: 7. Hegelian sociality: recognitive status; 8. Recognition and politics; 9. Institutional rationality; 10. Concluding remarks.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Pippin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521429573
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42957-3
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy