Abstract

It is usually thought that guilt comes from a transgression of the norm or law. The universal reason determines to act according to the duty of a subject withdrawn within himself. The action that emanates from obedience to the law is the moral virtue of the singular. But Hegel proposes the tragedy of an opposition between two duties that compel to act, at the same time, according to them. However, in obeying one of the laws the other is transgressed. Thus, the virtue of following the law is, at the same time, transgression with respect to the other opposing law. Fate condemns Antigone to violate the law of reason, acting, however, in accordance with her duty. The ethical substance is broken, how to avoid guilt?.

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