Hegel's Practical Philosophy

Rational Agency as Ethical Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19604331
AutoresRobert B Pippin (0000-0002-4589-9190, University of Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Fecha de publicación2008-10-30
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaHegel's Practical Philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511808005
OpenAlexW4299786563
Open LibraryOL16973438M
ISBN9780511808005
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas155

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 that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of agency, the view that agency is not exclusively a matter of the self-relation and self-determination of an individual but requires the right sort of engagement with and recognition by others. Using a detailed analysis of key Hegelian texts, he develops this interpretation to reveal the bearing of Hegel's claims on many contemporary issues, including much-discussed core problems in the liberal democratic tradition. His important study will be valuable for all readers who are interested in Hegel's philosophy and in the modern problems of agency and freedom

Agency (philosophy) · Democracy · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Practical philosophy · Relation (database) · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · 1770-1831 · Agent (philosophy) · Ethics · Free will and determinism · georg wilhelm friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) · Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich