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[from 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism ]

Full Idea

Hegel's final standpoint is that the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community.

Gist of Idea

For Hegel, the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821]) by Alasdair MacIntyre - A Short History of Ethics Ch.15

Book Reference

MacIntyre,Alasdair: 'A Short History of Ethics' [Routledge 1967], p.208


A Reaction

This (together with Aristotle) is the basis of modern communitarianism. There is the problem of saintly people who kept their integrity through the Nazi period. I agree with the proposal, in a loose sort of way.