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The ethics of democracy : a contemporary reading of Hegel's philosophy of right / Lucio Cortella ; translated by Giacomo Donis.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophyPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438457550
  • 1438457553
Uniform titles:
  • Etica della democrazia. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics of democracyDDC classification:
  • 320.01/1 23
LOC classification:
  • JC233.H46 C6813 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Translator's Introduction; Preface to the English Translation; Preface to the Original Italian Edition: Does Democracy Need Ethics?; Introduction. Morality and Ethical Life: Key Concepts in Hegel's Conception of the Political; Chapter 1. Freedom and the Absolute; 1.1. Freedom and Ontology; 1.2. Freedom and Self-transparency; 1.3. Freedom and Negativity; 1.4. Freedom and Finitude; 1.5. Freedom and Relation; 1.6. Freedom and Objectivity; 1.7. Freedom and Self-consciousness; Chapter 2. The Age of Universal Freedom; 2.1. "Person" and the Universality of Right.
2.2. Freedom as Autonomy of the Subject2.3. Freedom of Civil Society; 2.3.1. Civil Society as State of Nature; 2.3.2. Abstract Freedom Becomes Reality; 2.3.3. Primacy of Freedom Over Nature; 2.3.4. Overcoming Individualism; 2.3.5. Civil Society as "the External State"; 2.3.6. The Realm of Appearance; 2.3.7. From Subjective Freedom to Relational Freedom: Family, Civil Society, Corporation; Chapter 3. Actualization of Ethical Life: The Sphere of the State; 3.1. Characteristics of Hegelian Ethical Life; 3.1.1. Unity of Freedom and Nature; 3.1.2. Unity of Freedom and History.
3.1.3. Reconciliation of Universality and Ethos3.1.4. Ethos as "Second Nature"; 3.1.5. Healing the Diremption of Modernity; 3.1.6. Practical Unity of Subject and Object; 3.2. Ethical Life as Primacy of the Object; 3.2.1. Reconciliation of Individual and Universal; 3.2.2. The Originariness of Order; 3.2.3. A Subjectivity Deficit; 3.3. Contingency of the Ethical; 3.3.1. Failure of Ethical Life; 3.3.2. Nationalistic Closure of the Universality of Sittlichkeit and the Defeat of Freedom; 3.3.3. From Objective Spirit to Absolute Spirit.
Chapter 4. Elements of a Postidealist Ethical Life: A Democratization of Hegel's Political Philosophy4.1. Logico-ontological Presuppositions of Hegelian Ethical Life; 4.1.1. From Ethical Life to the Philosophy of History; 4.1.2. From Philosophy of History to Logic; 4.1.3. Two Competing Conceptions of the Idea of Freedom; 4.2. Ethical Life and Logic of Recognition; 4.2.1. Logic of Recognition; 4.2.2. Ethical Life and Otherness; 4.2.3. Normative Background of Recognition and Spheres of Ethical Life; 4.3. Democracy as Ethos; 4.3.1. Fundamental Characteristics of a Democratic Ethical Life.
4.3.2. A Democratization of HegelNotes; Bibliography; Index.
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"Originally published as L'etica della democrazia. Attualità della Filosofia del diritto di Hegel (Marietti Editore, 2011)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Translator's Introduction; Preface to the English Translation; Preface to the Original Italian Edition: Does Democracy Need Ethics?; Introduction. Morality and Ethical Life: Key Concepts in Hegel's Conception of the Political; Chapter 1. Freedom and the Absolute; 1.1. Freedom and Ontology; 1.2. Freedom and Self-transparency; 1.3. Freedom and Negativity; 1.4. Freedom and Finitude; 1.5. Freedom and Relation; 1.6. Freedom and Objectivity; 1.7. Freedom and Self-consciousness; Chapter 2. The Age of Universal Freedom; 2.1. "Person" and the Universality of Right.

2.2. Freedom as Autonomy of the Subject2.3. Freedom of Civil Society; 2.3.1. Civil Society as State of Nature; 2.3.2. Abstract Freedom Becomes Reality; 2.3.3. Primacy of Freedom Over Nature; 2.3.4. Overcoming Individualism; 2.3.5. Civil Society as "the External State"; 2.3.6. The Realm of Appearance; 2.3.7. From Subjective Freedom to Relational Freedom: Family, Civil Society, Corporation; Chapter 3. Actualization of Ethical Life: The Sphere of the State; 3.1. Characteristics of Hegelian Ethical Life; 3.1.1. Unity of Freedom and Nature; 3.1.2. Unity of Freedom and History.

3.1.3. Reconciliation of Universality and Ethos3.1.4. Ethos as "Second Nature"; 3.1.5. Healing the Diremption of Modernity; 3.1.6. Practical Unity of Subject and Object; 3.2. Ethical Life as Primacy of the Object; 3.2.1. Reconciliation of Individual and Universal; 3.2.2. The Originariness of Order; 3.2.3. A Subjectivity Deficit; 3.3. Contingency of the Ethical; 3.3.1. Failure of Ethical Life; 3.3.2. Nationalistic Closure of the Universality of Sittlichkeit and the Defeat of Freedom; 3.3.3. From Objective Spirit to Absolute Spirit.

Chapter 4. Elements of a Postidealist Ethical Life: A Democratization of Hegel's Political Philosophy4.1. Logico-ontological Presuppositions of Hegelian Ethical Life; 4.1.1. From Ethical Life to the Philosophy of History; 4.1.2. From Philosophy of History to Logic; 4.1.3. Two Competing Conceptions of the Idea of Freedom; 4.2. Ethical Life and Logic of Recognition; 4.2.1. Logic of Recognition; 4.2.2. Ethical Life and Otherness; 4.2.3. Normative Background of Recognition and Spheres of Ethical Life; 4.3. Democracy as Ethos; 4.3.1. Fundamental Characteristics of a Democratic Ethical Life.

4.3.2. A Democratization of HegelNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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