Hegel's Conscience

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Hegelian Ethics? 2. Interpretive Parameters 3. Hegel's Problem Chapter One: Self-Consciousness and Agency 1.1. First-Person Authority and Responsible Action 1.2. Conscience in History 1.3. Immanent Negativity 1.4. Negativity and Ethical Content 1.5. A Performative View of Practical Reason Chapter Two: Motivating and Justifying Reasons 2.1. The Reasons Identity Condition 2.2. Internal Reasons and the Knight of Virtue 2.3. The Implicit Universality and Objectivity of Internal Reason 2.4. Freedom and the Appeal to Pure Reason 2.5. Conscience and Motivating Reasons 2.6. The Ambiguity of Conscience 2.7. The Complex Reasons Identity Condition Chapter Three: Holism and Detachment 3.1. Subjectivism and Detachment 3.2. Self-Expression and Interpretive Authority 3.3. Conscience as Holistic Practical Reason 3.4. Abuses of Holism 3.5. Autonomy as Non-Detachment Chapter Four: Deliberation and Justification 4.1. Moral Conflict 4.2. Law and Value 4.3. Moral Reflection and Skepticism 4.4. Conscience as Judgment 4.5. Fallibilism and the Externality of Judgment 4.6. The Disjunctive Inference Chapter Five: Mutual Recognition 5.1. Recognition and the Moments of Action 5.2. The Value of the Purposes of Conscience 5.3 The Language of Conscience 5.4. Ethical Purposes and the Value of Humanity 5.5. The Endpoint of Recognition in the Phenomenology 5.6. Objective Spirit and the Transition to Ethical Life Chapter Six: Practical Reason in Ethical Life 6.1. The Family 6.2. Civil Society and the Need for Conscience 6.3. The Legal System 6.4. Right, Duty and the State 6.5. Sovereignty and Deliberative Processes 6.6. Our Actuality Bibliography Index