Single Idea 22770

[catalogued under 16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents]

Full Idea

A person is a subject which is aware of its subjectivity, for as a person, I am completely for myself: the person is the individuality of freedom in pure being-for-itself.

Gist of Idea

A person is a being which is aware of its own self-directed and free subjectivity

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 035 add)

Book Reference

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', ed/tr. Wood,Allen W. [CUP 1991], p.68


A Reaction

Sartre's being 'pour-soi'. Presumably the freedom is for action as well as thought. He ignores Spinoza's claim that such freedom is just an illusion.

Related Idea

Idea 22779 The good is realised freedom [Hegel]