POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Agency, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Privet
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The importance of hegel: his theory of history influenced marx. Hegel introduced topics like freedom of the state and privet property: recent interest in hegel as he is depicted critiquing liberalism. Readings says that his form of the status quo is what the norm is (what ought to be) He does not think it is possible to step outside the ethical norms of our society. Hegel suggests what is, is reason believing that what is found in society has been prescribed by reason. Suggests that norms consist of nothing other than the duties and virtues embedded in the central institutions of modern social life. If we are moral citizens, they will do the correct thing, their persuasion to do wrong being denied, this creates a moral agent. How do we manage our duties as there may be a multitude of duties: conservative. What is these institutions are sexist, racist ect. This reforms the status quo and all its injustice.