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Hegel
Spring 2020 - Phil 455
Prof. Levine

 

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Recommended Readings  


General Papers
R. Pippin, ‘Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: The Realization of Freedom’
A. Honneth, Chapter 1 of The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory 
A Honneth, ‘Three, not Two, Concepts of Liberty’
A. Patten, ‘Perspectives on Hegel’s Idea of Freedom’, Chapter 1 of Hegel’s Idea of Freedom
K. Westphal, ‘The Basic Context and Structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’
C. Taylor, 'Freedom, Reason, and Nature'

Week 2
C. Korsgaard, Kant’s Analysis of Obligation, the Argument of Groundwork 1

Week 3
H. Allison, ‘Morality and Freedom: The Reciprocity Thesis’

Week 4
F. Neuhauser, ‘The Method of the Philosophy of Right’
M. Hardimon, ‘The Doppelsatz’, from Hegel’s Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation
R. Pippin, ‘Hegel’s Political Argument and the Problem of Verwirklichung’

Week 5
A. Patten, ‘Freedom as Rational Self-Determination’, Chapter 2 of Hegel’s Idea of Freedom
P. Franco, Hegel's Concept of Freedom
F. Neuhauser, ‘Hegel’s Social Philosophy’

Week 6
J. Ritter, ‘Person and Property in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (§§34-81)’

Week 7
S. Houlgate, ‘Property, Use, and Value in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’
S. Benhabib, ‘Obligation, Contract, and Exchange: On the Significance of Hegel’s Abstract Right’
W. Schild, ‘The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Punishment’

Week 8
A. Wood, ‘Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences’
A Wood,' Hegel on Morality'
C. Taylor, ‘Hegel and the Philosophy of Action’
R. Pippin, ‘Hegel’s Social Theory of Agency: The “Inner-Outer” Problem’

Week 9
S. Sedgwick, ‘Hegel's Critique of the Subjective Idealism of Kant's Ethics’
R. Stern, ‘On Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Ethics’
A. Wood, 'The Emptiness of the Moral Law'
D. Moyar, ‘Hegelian Conscience as Reflective Equilibrium and the Organic Justification of Sittlichkeit’

Week 10
L. Siep, ‘Hegel’s Philosophy of Action: The “Aufhebung” of Morality in Ethical Life’

A. Novakovic, excerpt from Hegel on Second nature in Ethical Life