POLS 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Positive Liberty, Communitarianism
4 Mar 2017
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Lived 1770-1831 importance because of his influence on marx and his recent revival in liberal communitarianism. Accepting that what ought to be, is conservative. Is is not possible to step out of the ethical norms of society. Ethical life thesis: states that norms consist of nothing more than duties and virtues embedded in institutions. The answer to what ought i to do provided by institutions of family, civil society, the state. Against the conventional reading: hegel"s support of failed reforms in prussia. All citizens eligible for civil service, public and jury trials moderate reforms: hegel"s conception of freedom as positive freedom. Subjective condition: the agent has both reflected on the determination in question and found some subjective satisfaction in performing state caters to our individual interests. Objective condition: the content of the determination and the disposition that motivates the agent to pursue the determination and are both prescribed by reason state provides a rational way of life.
