The relation of religion to secular order has once more assumed centre stage in the renewed conflict between secular democracies and a traditional religiosity turned fiercely political. The extreme development of the former had seen politics represented as the only true redemption and religion condemned as the malaise of self-alienated humanity, to be purged altogether or rendered subordinate t...

ness of private life: Hegel develops private rights and morals as such abstractions, from which it does not follow, for him, that the state or ethical life [Sittlichkeit] of which they are presuppositions can be nothing but the society (the social life) of these illusions; 9 "Hegel calls private rights the rights of abstract personality, or abstract rights. And indeed they have to be developed ...

a familiar criticism of kant, made by hegel and his followers, j .s. mill and others, is that there are no maxims that are in fact contradictory, as required for morality on kant's view. in this paper, i discuss the suggestion that our capacity for rational reflection itself implies universality, and that it is this universality that obliges us to act morally. i consider the idea that self...

the relationship between ethics and religion, which can be an issue in all the history of philosophy and philosophy in all systems studied. but the discussion of kant practical reason and its separation as a theoretical sense and followed by discussion of metaphysical and theological ethics and religion to the realm of practical reason bring about other effects found. although kant denies all a...

Marcuse's Reason and Revolution was the first Hegelian Marxist text to appear in English, the first systematic study of Hegel by a Marxist, and the first work in English to discuss the young Marx seriously. It introduced Hegelian and Marxist concepts such as alienation, subjectivity, negativity, and the Frankfurt School's critique of positivism to a wide audience in the United States. When the ...

We know that for Hegel the notion of spirit takes so many shapes that their unity is difficult to find. For instance, what does the soul in the subjective spirit, the property in the objective spirit and the cult of the Greek gods in the absolute spirit have in common? Furthermore, when we consider property, for example, the problem is knowing if the spirit is here constituted by the owner, by ...