Hegel on Action

by Laitinen, Arto; Sandis, Constantine

• ISBN13: 9780230229082
• ISBN10: 0230229085
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This unique collection focuses on Hegel'sPhilosophy of Actionas it relates to current concerns. Including key papers by Taylor, MacIntyre, and McDowell as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action.

Author Biography

Arto Laitinen is Research Fellow at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. His publications include Strong Evaluation Without Moral Sources (2008), Dimensions of Personhood (2007, edited with Heikki Ikhemimo), Recognition and Social Ontology (edited with Heikki Ikheimo, forthcoming), and a number of articles on mutual recognition. Constantine Sandis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and NYU in London. He is the author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (forthcoming) and editor of New Essays on the Explanation of Action (2009) as well as A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (with Timothy O'Connor, 2010).

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction: Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Action	p. 1
Hegel and the Philosophy of Action	p. 22
Hegel on Actions, Reasons, and Causes	p. 42
Hegel's Social Theory of Agency: The 'Inner-Outer' Problem	p. 59
Towards a Reading of Hegel on Action in the 'Reason' Chapter of the Phenomenology	p. 79
Doing without Agency: Hegel's Social Theory of Action	p. 97
Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences	p. 119
Freedom and the Lifeworld	p. 137
Action, Right and Morality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right	p. 155
Hegel on Faces and Skulls	p. 176
What Does it Mean to 'Make Oneself Into An Object'? In Defense of a Key Notion of Hegel's Theory of Action	p. 189
Hegel's Planning Theory of Agency	p. 212
Hegel, Narrative and Agency	p. 232
Action Between Conviction and Recognition in Hegel's Critique of the Moral Worldviews	p. 244
Hegel and Agent-Relative Reasons	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 291
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