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| 21788 | The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society |
| Full Idea: Whereas the moral will understands the good to be something which it can recognise or determine by itself, the ethical will acknowledges the good to be something actual which it encounters in the world about it. | |||
| From: Stephen Houlgate (An Introduction to Hegel [1991], 08 'Freedom') | |||
| A reaction: I think these two terms have become blurred - or at least I have thoroughly lost track of them. I'm not sure whether it is good to have distinct terms for (Kantian) personal choice and for social expectations. Ethics is what Nietzsche attacks. |