Hegel's idea of freedom [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Patten

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777703003321
• Autore: Patten Alan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-19-159818-6; 0-19-151927-8; 1-282-05186-5; 9786612051869
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Collana: Oxford philosophical monographs
• Disciplina: 123/.5/092
• Soggetti: Liberty
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction: Perspectives on Hegel's Idea of Freedom""; ""1.1. Freedom and Sittlichkeit""; ""1.2. Four Readings""; ""1.3. The Conventionalist Reading""; ""1.4. The Metaphysical Reading""; ""1.5. The Historicist Reading""; ""1.6. The Civic Humanist Reading""; ""1.7. Converging Perspectives""; ""2. Freedom as Rational Self-Determination""; ""2.1. Introduction""; ""2.2. Three Models of Freedom""; ""2.3. Hegel's Conception of Freedom: A Formulation""; ""2.4. Freedom, Authority, and Desire""; ""2.5. The Standard Objections""; ""3. The Reciprocity Thesis in Kant and Hegel""""3.1. The Reciprocity Thesis""; ""3.2. The Empty Formalism Objection""; ""3.3. Kant's Argument for the Reciprocity Thesis""; ""3.4. Towards a Resolution: The Concrete Universal""; ""3.5. The Recursive Structure of Freedom""; ""3.6. Completing the Argument""; ""4. Hegel and Social Contract Theory""; ""4.1. Introduction""; ""4.2. Hegel's Critique of Social Contract Theory""; ""4.3. Recognition as the Foundation of Hegel's Alternative to Social Contract Theory""; ""4.4. Social Institutions as Mediating and Stabilizing Recognition""; ""4.5. Concluding Remarks""""5. Hegel's Justification of Private Property""; ""5.1. Introduction""; ""5.2. Personality""; ""5.3. A Puzzle""; ""5.4. Property and Personality in Fichte's Social Philosophy""; ""5.5. ; Property and Recognition""; ""5.6. The Limits of Hegel's Argument""; ""6. A Civic Humanist Idea of Freedom""; ""6.1. Introduction""; ""6.2. Two Conceptions of the State""; ""6.3. The Rationality of the Hegelian State""; ""6.4. The State as the Actuality of Concrete Freedom""; ""6.5. Two Objections""; ""7. Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""
• Sommario/riassunto: Alan Patten presents an original interpretation of Hegel's idea of freedom and offers answers to a number of central questions about his ethical and political thought. Freedom is the value that Hegel most admired and the core of his social philosophy.