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Single Idea 21790

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Full Idea

The moral individual becomes an ethical individual when he recognises that his own voice need not always utter the last word on a given matter, but should be understood as participating in ongoing social and political practices.

Gist of Idea

Moral individuals become ethical when they see the social aspect of a matter

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 08 'Freedom'

Book Ref

Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.197

A Reaction

This is a key idea in Hegel, and is seen (by Charles Taylor etc) as the foundations of modern communitarianism.

Related Idea

Idea 21788 The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society [Houlgate]

The 53 ideas from 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right'

21787 Evil enters a good will when we believe we are doing right, but allow no criticism of our choice [Hegel, by Houlgate]
8029 You can't have a morality which is supplied by the individual, but is also genuinely universal [Hegel, by MacIntyre]
22051 The categorical imperative lacks roots in a historical culture [Hegel, by Bowie]
21988 In the 1840s Hegel seemed to defend society being right as it is, as a manifestation of Mind [Hegel, by Singer]
21790 Moral individuals become ethical when they see the social aspect of a matter [Hegel, by Houlgate]
8030 For Hegel, the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community [Hegel, by MacIntyre]
22085 Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22767 I aim to portray the state as a rational entity [Hegel]
22766 Philosophy is exploration of the rational [Hegel]
21979 Wisdom emerges at the end of a process [Hegel]
21778 True liberal freedom is to pursue something, while being free to cease the pursuit [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21779 People assume they are free, but the options available are not under their control [Hegel]
22768 Subjective and objective are not firmly opposed, but merge into one another [Hegel]
21780 A free will primarily wills its own freedoom [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22769 The concept of the will is the free will which wills its freedom [Hegel]
22770 A person is a being which is aware of its own self-directed and free subjectivity [Hegel]
22771 Be a person, and respect other persons [Hegel]
22772 Personality overcomes subjective limitations and posits Dasein as its own [Hegel]
21782 Man has an absolute right to appropriate things [Hegel]
22773 Because only human beings can own property, everything else can become our property [Hegel]
22774 A community does not have the property-owning rights that a person has [Hegel]
22775 The owner of a thing is obviously the first person to freely take possession of it [Hegel]
22776 Slaves are partly responsible for their own condition [Hegel]
22777 Individuals must dedicate themselves to the ethical whole, and give their lives when asked [Hegel]
22778 Individuals can't leave the state, because they are natural citizens, and humans require a state [Hegel]
22779 The good is realised freedom [Hegel]
22780 It is a rejection of intellectual dignity to say that we cannot know the truth [Hegel]
22781 The categorical imperative is fine if you already have a set of moral principles [Hegel]
21786 Conscience is the right of the self to know what is right and obligatory, and thus make them true [Hegel]
22782 To have pagan beliefs and be a pagan are quite different [Hegel]
22783 Rights imply duties, and duties imply rights [Hegel]
22784 Love is ethical life in its natural form [Hegel]
22785 Even educated women are unsuited to science, philosophy, art and government [Hegel]
22786 Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness [Hegel]
22787 The family is the first basis of the state, but estates are a necessary second [Hegel]
22788 A human only become a somebody as a member of a social estate [Hegel]
22789 Society draws people, and requires their work, making them wholly dependent on it [Hegel]
22790 We cannot assert rights which are unnatural [Hegel]
22791 The state is the march of God in the world [Hegel]
21791 Social groups must focus on the state, which must in turn respect their inclusion and their will [Hegel]
21789 Slaves have no duties because they have no rights [Hegel]
22792 Individuals attain their right by discovering their self-consciousness in institutions [Hegel]
22793 Some religions lead to harsh servitude and the debasement of human beings [Hegel]
22795 People can achieve respect for their state by insight into its essence [Hegel]
22794 A fully developed state is conscious and knows what it wills [Hegel]
22796 A constitution embodies a nation's rights and condition [Hegel]
22798 Money is the best way to achieve just equality [Hegel]
22797 In modern states an individual's actions should be their choice [Hegel]
22799 The people do not have the ability to know the general will [Hegel]
22800 Majority rule means obligations can be imposed on me [Hegel]
21792 The state should reflect all interests, and not just popular will, or a popular party [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22801 The great man of the ages is the one who reveals and accomplishes the will of his time [Hegel]
22802 Wars add strength to a nation, and cure internal dissension [Hegel]