...This chapter undertakes a retrospective assessment of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of ethical life. This includes a critical summary of his attempt, via his appropriation of Spinoza, Aristotle, and Kant, to unveil the core of moral religion, that is, three dimensions of life—metaphysical, anthropological...

...Chapter 6 brings the preceding analysis of practical reason to bear on the three main institutions in Hegel's account of Ethical Life, namely the family, Civil Society, and the State. One of the main goals is to understand how individual subjectivity is respected and expressed within those...

... and the ethical life, and death....

...The book’s epilogue sketches the afterlife of the anti-political alternative to Catholic socialism: dialogue, solidarity, and a pastorally driven, pluralistic “ethical life” (the answer to G.W.F. Hegel’s search for Sittlichkeit). When the Stalinist bubble ultimately burst...

...-consciousness, norm-seeking and enforcement, discrimination, and role-swapping. While these human capacities are necessary, they are not sufficient conditions for ethical life. What they help explain is what it is about humans that makes them prone to taking an ethical stance. For the psychology of ethics...

... and social relations. freedom autonomy Immanuel Kant G. W. F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit self-consciousness recognition idealism ethical life moral duty Ikaheimo H Margalit A freedom recognition Ellison R Hegel G W F Honneth A Taylor C Invisible Man Ellison misrecognition Phenomenology...

... with the noninstrumental realm. violence sacrifice religious life ethical life political life self-transcendence war state Sacrifice is an essential phenomenon of religious, ethical, and political life. In its two senses, as “sacrificing to” and “sacrificing for,” the linguistic use of the term covers immensely...

... of rational consciousness in the chapter amounts to a general criticism of distinctively modern self-consciousness, particularly of its individualism. It is argued that the alleged resolution of reason’s tension in the transition at the end of the chapter to spirit, in particular, to ethical life, itself...

... between what Williams takes shame in its essence to be and what shame can do—the role that shame can be expected to play in ethical life. Williams can—and, the authors argue, should—be read as avoiding the difficulties stemming from this tension, but this requires a reevaluation of several of his central...

... (Geist) and ethical life (Sittlichkeit). Second, an account of the division and break-up of the Hegelian School into right-wing and left-wing over the issue of the personhood of God. Right Hegelians interpreted divine personhood to mean an abstract otherworldly divine person...

...By means of an analysis of Hegelian and Hegelian-inspired notions of aspects of communal ethical life, this chapter aims to demonstrate that, far from requiring a non-metaphysical (version of) Hegel, his concept of an ethical community rests on his concepts of consciousness and self-consciousness...

...Hegel's first attempt to write a systematic treatise for use in connection with lectures on ‘natural law’ survived. This is the so-called ‘System of Ethical Life’. It presents a progressive conceptual movement from an undeveloped intuition toward the conceptual whole that is implicit in it. What...

... that the “emptiness” of “abstract right” and “morality” could only be filled in by the actuality of Sittlichkeit, translated as “ethical life,” the facts of human life in families, social and economic organizations, and government. In many ways Hegel’s conception of “ethical life” is not very...

... Justice Satisfaction Befriedigung conscience infinity actual actuality Wirklichkeit form of life Idea Sittlichkeit second nature subjectivity substance democracy Idealism organic Lovibond Sabina Wood Allen Enlightenment freedom morality ethical life individuality conscience When Hegel...

... use of Christian doctrine is very similar to Immanuel Kant’s translation of this doctrine within the pure religion of reason. This chapter describes the stages of transition that Judge William sees from the aesthetic into the ethical life and explains the transition into the religious life using...

... of this chapter is to put the preceding account of the inferential validity of right together with the model of life from Chapter 1. The chapter first explains the metaphysical claims in the introduction to “Ethical Life” as claims about value. The chapter provides a new interpretation of the identity of right...

...This introductory chapter talks about philosophy and its relation to thinking and living an ethical life. It presents an overview of the parts of the book, the essays included in this collection, and the key topics discussed in each essay. ethical life philosophy and Nietzsche Friedrich...

...Fascism is inseparable from the oppression of others because it is an expression of the desire for repression of one’s own multiple, imbricated, and fluid selves. An ethical life that chooses freedom must therefore nurture those connections that will reinforce habits that foster qualities...

..., and ethical life (Sittlichkeit) in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (his account of “Objective Spirit”) and it embodies a Hegelian sentiment of sorts, an avoidance of extremes for the sake of a “dialectical resolution.” In this case it would be a kind of “Goldilocks” resolution...

... of Bhabha's subject fundamentally alters, yet remains engaged with, the fragile force of ethical life, and that he showed how the urgency of the postcolonial situation pushed matters of collectivity and migration to the fore. The chapter argues that Emmanuel Levinas's most important innovation...