An ethical modernity? : Hegel's concept of ethical life today
edited by Jiří Chotaš and Tereza Matějčková
Bok Engelsk 2020
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| Omfang | IX, 217 sider
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| Opplysninger | Revised and reworked papers from a conference held in Prague in Sept. 2018--ECIP introduction.. - The authority of conceptual analysis in Hegelian ethical life / W. Clark Wolf -- Slaves to habit : the positivity of modern ethical life / Bart Zantvoort -- The concept of judgment on the legal stage : an alternative view of Hegel's theory of freedom / Benno Zabel -- Hegel's ethical life as the attempt to offer a home to the categorical imperative / Paul Cobben -- Formalism and the actuality of freedom : on Kant and Hegel / Christian Krijnen -- Hegel's philosophy of the modern family : fatal families? / Tereza Matějčková -- "The European Spirit" : some remarks on the idea of Europe from a Hegelian point of view / Stascha Rohmer -- The state and ethical life in Hegel's philosophy / Jiří Chotaš -- "Sittlichkeit" in international politics / Olga Navrátilová -- Modern philosophy and philosophical modernity : Hegel's metaphilosophical commitment / Alberto L. Siani -- Supplement: Hegel's travels to Bohemia / Klaus Vieweg.. - "Modernity has neither a beginning nor an end. To be precise, we do not know when the period started and when (or if) it ended. Are we modern? Were we ever modern? And is "post- modernity" only a variation of modernity? These questions remain open. Just as the phenomenon of modernity is elusive, so is its definition. Yet, elusiveness never prevents thinkers from offering definitions. On the contrary, the very elusiveness is what incites these creative attempts. One of the most famous definitions of modernity does not originate with a philosopher but a poet. Baudelaire says that "modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable" (Baudelaire 1972, 403). This understanding of modernity captures more than its fleetingness; it shows that anything with the tag "modern" has a built- in dimension of transience and finitude, so to speak. Taking inspiration from Baudelaire, we might arrive at a minimal- and by no means unproblematic- definition of modernity: Modern is that which is other than tradition, that which even opposes tradition"--
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| ISBN | 9789004432574
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