Abstract
It is in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1821) where he developed the institutional details for the concept of moral life or Sittlichkeit that views everything in society – including corporations – as socially constructed. Three levels of morality are necessary to establish Sittlichkeit.253 Hegel places corporations at the second level between families and states. The first level of morality is that of the family or Familiensittlichkeit.254 This is the most immediate and natural form of social coexistence and cooperation because families are the first social entity of mutual and equal recognition. This is the place where human beings experience parental love, intimacy, closeness, mutual support, ‘the solidarity of families’, and Hegel’s ethics of recognition.255 Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (1994), for example, stresses just how important recognition is for human beings: recognition is ‘a vital human need’.256
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