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Title

The nature of the self : recognition in the form of right and morality / by Paul Cobben.

Author

Cobben, Paul.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

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Description

viii, 250 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, 0344-8142 ; Bd. 91

Uniform Title

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 91.

Subjects

• Mind and body
• Ethics
• Recognition (Philosophy)
• Self (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The human self as the unity of mind and body. The immediate unity of mind and body -- Consciousness : looking for the independence of the outside world -- Self-consciousness -- Is the transition from the natural into the legal status possible? -- Self-consciousness and the legal status -- Violence, power and the legal status -- Self-consciousness and the overcoming of exclusion -- The lord/bondsman relation -- The historical reality of the lord/bondsman relation -- The unhappy consciousness -- Reason -- The mind/body unity as an historical reality -- The Greek world : the origin of the first self. The polis as the unity of the human and divine law -- The abstract work of art : the representation of the pure self in the public domain -- The polis as a harmonic unity -- Repression of the deed : the living work of art -- The representation of the deed : the spiritual work of art -- Conclusion -- Retrospection -- The Roman Empire as the result of the Greek world -- The realm of culture : the genesis of the second self. The fall of the Roman Empire and the experience of the person -- The genesis of the moral individual -- The embodiment of the "pure being" in the real individual : the self-conscious reality of the unhappy consciousness -- The meaning of the moral individual in the objective world -- The realization of the moral individual in the objective world : the process of culture -- The absolute freedom : the second self -- Retrospection -- The realm of morality : making the third self explicit. The point of departure of the realm of morality : the Rousseauian reflection -- The inner contradiction of the Napoleonic law : the Kantian reflection -- The sublation of the inner contradiction -- The Hegelian reflection on the Napoleonic law : conscience as the origin of the third self -- The development of conscience -- Conscience that becomes aware of itself as unhappy consciousness -- The meaning of the "absolute spirit" -- Retrospection -- Honneth's criticism of Hegel's metaphysics. The "phenomenology of spirit" and the question of "the nature of the self" -- The relation of mind and body as the primordial form of recognition -- The development of freedom from the inside perspective -- The transition from a monological into a dialogical approach -- The absolute spirit as the presupposition of the dialogical relation -- Absolute spirit and metaphysics -- Religion -- Recognition between metaphysics and empiricism -- Honneth's project in relation to the phenomenology of spirit and the philosophy of right -- The program of the philosophy of right as elaboration of the phenomenology's project. The conceptual design of the philosophy of right -- The abstract right as the formal notion of the first self -- Morality as the formal notion of the second self -- Conscience as the formal unity of right and morality -- Conscience in the 'philosophy of right' vis-à-vis conscience in the 'phenomenology of spirit' -- The formal unity of the three forms of the self following from the 'phenomenology of spirit' -- The actualization of the human self -- The family : the institutional house of the first self. The species life of animals -- The family in the philosophy of right : animal life in the form of freedom -- The social organism of the family vis-à-vis the conceptual framework of the 'philosophy of right' and the 'phenomenology of spirit' -- The education of the children in the family of the revised 'philosophy of right' -- Retrospection -- Excursus : the development of the child to a real person in confrontation with Jürgen Habermas's reception of the stages of moral consciousness developed by Lawrence Kohlberg -- The civil society : developing the institutional house of the second self. The development of the second self's embodiment in the 'philosophy of right' : civil society -- The process of culture in civil society -- Culture in the socialized production system as part of the system of needs -- Institutionalizing the seond self : the community of moral subjects -- Criticism of the development of civil society in the light of the phenomenology of spirit -- The revised concept of culture in civil society -- The free market and the exclusion of individuals -- The market and the moral subject -- Moral subjectivity and lifelong partnership -- The market and the good life -- Retrospection -- The state : the embodiment of the third self. The development of the third self's embodiment in the 'philosophy of right' : the state -- Criticizing the state of the 'philosophy of right' in the light of the 'phenomenology of spirit' -- The revision of the citizen and the monarch -- The development of the third self as the presupposition of the revised state -- The government -- Jurisdiction -- International law -- The political cooperation between nation states.

Call Number

JFE 09-4722

ISBN

• 9783110219876 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 3110219875 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009024687

OCLC

406945850

Author

Cobben, Paul.

Title

The nature of the self : recognition in the form of right and morality / by Paul Cobben.

Imprint

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

Series

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, 0344-8142 ; Bd. 91

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 91.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Research Call Number

JFE 09-4722