The expansion of autonomy : Hegel's pluralistic philosophy of action / Christopher Yeomans.

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Yeomans, Christopher [author.]

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""Cover""; ""The Expansion of Autonomy""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I General Framework""; ""1 Virtue and Individuality""; ""Â1: Virtue as the Individualization of Duty""; ""Â2: Virtue as Duties that Persons Have in Virtue of also Being Animals""; ""Â3: Virtue as the Fight Between Reason and the Inclinations""; ""Â4: The Development of Talents as a Duty of Virtue""; ""2 The Empty Formalism Objection in the Context of Individualized Virtue""; ""3 Fichte and the Problem of Individual Effectiveness""

""4 A Moral Psychology of Talents and Interests""""Â1: Talents and Interests""; ""Â2: Subjectivity and Objectivity""; ""Part II Experiments in Individuality""; ""5 The Changing Nature of Objective Content""; ""Â1: The Distinctively Moral Form of Objective Content""; ""Â2: Farmers""; ""Â3: Soldiers""; ""6 Talents and the Shaping of Action""; ""Â1: Talent and Intentional Self-Knowledge""; ""Â2: Craft and Industrial Producers""; ""Â3: Scholars""; ""7 The Concreteness of the Good""; ""Â1: The Effectiveness of the Good""; ""Â2: The Public Estate""; ""Â3: Merchants""

""Part III Conclusion""""8 Hegelian Self-Determination""; ""Â1: The Reciprocal Inversion of Moral and Material Ends""; ""Â2: Character as Medium and Process of Expression""; ""Â3: Non-Empiricist Action Explanations""; ""Â4: Objective Criteria and Deception""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Summary: In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its autonomy looks like a sham. Yeomans explores Hegel's own attempts to grapple with this problem against the background of Kant's attempts, in his theory of virtue, to understand the way that morally autonomous agents can be robust individuals with qualitatively different projects, personal relations and commitments that are nonetheless infused with a value that demands respect.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.

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In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its autonomy looks like a sham. Yeomans explores Hegel's own attempts to grapple with this problem against the background of Kant's attempts, in his theory of virtue, to understand the way that morally autonomous agents can be robust individuals with qualitatively different projects, personal relations and commitments that are nonetheless infused with a value that demands respect.

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