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Author Cortella, Lucio, 1953- author.

Title The ethics of democracy : a contemporary reading of Hegel's philosophy of right / Lucio Cortella ; translated by Giacomo Donis
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy
SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
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 Subject2.3. 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 Ethos3.1.4. 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
Chapter 4. Elements of a Postidealist Ethical Life: A Democratization of Hegel's Political Philosophy4.1. Logico-ontological Presuppositions of Hegelian Ethical Life; 4.1.1. From Ethical Life to the Philosophy of History; 4.1.2. From Philosophy of History to Logic; 4.1.3. Two Competing Conceptions of the Idea of Freedom; 4.2. Ethical Life and Logic of Recognition; 4.2.1. Logic of Recognition; 4.2.2. Ethical Life and Otherness; 4.2.3. Normative Background of Recognition and Spheres of Ethical Life; 4.3. Democracy as Ethos; 4.3.1. Fundamental Characteristics of a Democratic Ethical Life
4.3.2. A Democratization of HegelNotes; Bibliography; Index
Notes "Originally published as L'etica della democrazia. Attualità della Filosofia del diritto di Hegel (Marietti Editore, 2011)"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
SUBJECT Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast
Subject State, The.
Democracy.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Democracy
Ethics
State, The
Political Theory of the State.
Political Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438457550
1438457553
Other Titles Etica della democrazia. English