An Ethical Modernity? : Hegel’s Concept of Ethical Life Today

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Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Do We Know What Modernity Is? 2 The Essays Abbreviations of Hegel’s Works References Chapter 1 The Authority of Conceptual Analysis in Hegelian Ethical Life 1 Introduction1 2 Modern Ethical Life as the Realization of the Concept 3 Social Ontology and the Objective Authority of Concepts 4 “Essentially Contested” Concepts and Intersubjective Authority 5 Conclusion Abbreviations References Chapter 2 Slaves to Habit: the Positivity of Modern Ethical Life 1 Two Sides of Habit 2 Habit in Modernity 3 Social Habits: the Positivity of Ethical Life Abbreviations References Chapter 3 The Concept of Judgment on the Legal Stage: an Alternative View of Hegel’s Theory of Freedom 1 From Political to Legal Judgment 2 Revenge, Law and the Consciousness of Right 2.1 The Logic of the Forms of Judgment and Free Will 2.2 Revenge, Consciousness of Right, and Law 3 On the Dramaturgy of Procedure and Judgment 3.1 Judgment and State Authority 3.2 The Dramaturgy of the Procedure 3.3 Judicial Judgment and Justice in the Individual Case 4 Responsive Right and Political Judgment Abbreviations References Chapter 4 Hegel’s Ethical Life as the Attempt to Offer a Home to the Categorical Imperative 1 The First Moment of Ethical Life 2 The Second Moment of Ethical Life 3 Conclusion Abbreviations of Hegel’s Writings References Chapter 5 Formalism and the Actuality of Freedom: on Kant and Hegel 1 Sittlichkeit as an Enigma 2 Hegel’s Criticism of Practical Formalism 3 Formalism as Frustration of Actualizing Freedom 4 Hegel’s Logic of Freedom 5 Hegel’s Sittlichkeit as Rationalization of the Content: Overcoming the Unfreedom of Action Abbreviations References Chapter 6 Hegel’s Philosophy of the Modern Family: Fatal Families? 1 Introduction 2 The Family in a Hegelian Interpretation: Timely Nucleus in the Eternal Nature 3 Love as Felt Freedom? 4 The Freedom to Be Born, the Freedom to Die 5 Ironical Families 6 Hegel’s Thought on Families Today Abbreviations of Hegel’s Writings References Chapter 7 “The European Spirit”: Some Remarks on the Idea of Europe from a Hegelian Point of View 1 Introduction 2 Reclamation of Guiding Cultural Ideas as a Challenge for the Philosophy of History 3 Europe—the Elephant Which We Seldom See? 4 Looking for Universally Valid European Values Abbreviations of Hegel’s Writings References Chapter 8 The State and Ethical Life in Hegel’s Philosophy 1 The State and the Family 2 The State and Civil Society 3 Patriotism, the State, and Religion 4 The State as a Political Power Abbreviations of Hegel’s Writings References Chapter 9 “Sittlichkeit” in International Politics 1 Ambiguity of International Law 1.1 The Lack of a Supranational Sovereign Power 1.2 Tension between Welfare and Morality 1.3 International Civil Society 2 Cosmopolitanism or Nationalism? 3 Toward Perpetual Peace? 4 Conclusion Abbreviations References Chapter 10 Modern Philosophy and Philosophical Modernity: Hegel’s Metaphilosophical Commitment 1 Introduction 2 Hegel’s Vorsatz: Philosophy, Modernity, and Subjectivity 3 The Modern Shape of Philosophy 4 The Philosophical Shape of Modernity Abbreviations of Hegel’s Writings References Supplement: Hegel’s Travels to Bohemia 1 The First Impressions of Prague 2 Hegel’s Last Trip Abroad to Teplice, Prague, and Carlsbad Abbreviations Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects