The Ethics of Democracy : A Contemporary Reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Suny series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy)

Cortella, Lucio/ Donis, Giacomo (TRN)

State University of New York Press（2016/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 242 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438457543
• DDC分類 320.011

Full Description

Demonstrates how the ethical underpinning of Hegel's political and social philosophy has relevance for contemporary democratic life.

The legal regulations and formal rules of democracy alone are not enough to hold a society together and govern its processes. Yet the irreducible ethical pluralism that characterizes contemporary society seems to make it impossible to impose a single system of values as a source of social cohesion and identity reference. In this book, Lucio Cortella argues that Hegel's theory of ethical life can provide such a grounding and makes the case through an analysis of Hegel's central political work, the Philosophy of Right. Although Hegel did not support democratic political ends and wrote in a historical and cultural context far removed from the current liberal-democratic scene, Cortella maintains that the Hegelian theory of ethical life, with its emphasis on securing a framework conducive to human freedom, nevertheless offers a convincing response to the problem of the ethical uprootedness of contemporary democracy.

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

1. Freedom and the Absolute

2. The Age of Universal Freedom

3. Actualization of Ethical Life: The Sphere of the State

4. Elements of a Postidealist Ethical Life: A Democratization of Hegel's Political Philosophy

Notes
Bibliography
Index