Ethics of Democracy, The: A Contemporary Reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
In: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
In: SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy Ser.
Intro -- 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 Subject -- 2.3. 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 Ethos -- 3.1.4. 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.