Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill, Class Consciousness, Categorical Imperative
1 May 2013
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Chapter 6 - the metaphysical theory of the state. The state is the actuality of the ethical idea. Hegel"s idealism was a response to the transcendental idealism of immanuel kant, who in turn, was attempting to resolve the profoundly disturbing issues raised by david hume. While initially it had seemed that kant"s transcendental idealism had saved both theoretical and practical reasons from hume"s critique, subsequent thinkers began to have doubts. This hegel the absolute idea constitutes the ultimate rational organization of the universe that, the dialectic is progressively unfolding to human consciousness. Consciousness now knows itself to be the true reality because it recognizes its own reality as the universal rationality of all things. Kant had argued that freedom can only be defined as the exercise of the rationally moral will. Hegel argues that earlier forms of civilization either had failed to develop those institutions necessary for consciousness to become autonomous.
