Hegel's practical philosophy : rational agency as ethical life /

This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues th...

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Main Author: Pippin, Robert B., 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Spirit
  • Introduction: leading a free life
  • Naturalness and mindedness: Hegel's compatibilism
  • On giving oneself the law
  • The actualization of freedom
  • 2: Freedom
  • The freedom of the will: psychological dimensions
  • the freedom of the will: social dimensions
  • 3: Sociality
  • Hegelian sociality: recognitive status
  • Recognition and politics
  • Institutional rationality
  • Concluding remarks.