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  title info:
    title: Hegel's Idea of the Good Life
  name:
    name part: Goldstein, Joshua D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 256 p. online resource.
  abstract: In Hegel’s Idea of the Good Life, Joshua D. Goldstein presents the first book-length study of the development and meaning of Hegel’s account of human flourishing. When compared to the robust conceptions of human excellence found in ancient virtue ethics or the commitment to individualism in the modern ethics of the will, Hegel’s political thought can appear impoverished for its failure either to embrace or exposit those highest ideals of human flourishing that might provide an adequate guide to life. By bringing Hegel’s earliest writings into dialogue with his Philosophy of Right, Goldstein argues that Hegel’s mature political philosophy should be understood as a response to his youthful failure to build a sustainable account of the good life upon the foundations of ancient virtue. Through a clear and detailed textual interpretation, this study reveals how Hegel’s mature response integrates ancient concerns for the well-ordered life and modern concerns for autonomy in a new, robust conception of selfhood that can be actualized across the full expanse of the modern political community. Hegel’s Idea of the Good Life provides extensive analysis of the foundational essays in the formation of Hegel’s youthful thought (including the Tübingen essay, Berne Fragments, The Life of Jesus) as well as the structuring features of his mature political philosophy (including a critical reconstruction of freedom, ethical institutions, and experience within the Philosophy of Right). Goldstein’s contribution to the Studies in German Idealism series will be welcomed by philosophers and political theorists seeking to engage with the details of Hegel’s early and mature social thought.
  table of contents: THE DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE OF AN ARISTOTELIAN IDEA OF THE GOOD LIFE, 1793 TO 1800 -- THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND FOLK-RELIGION: THE TÜBINGEN ESSAY OF 1793 -- DISCOVERING THE COMMUNITY: THE BERNE FRAGMENTS OF 1794 -- THE END OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT: THE LIFE OF JESUS OF 1795 -- FREEDOM AND THE COMPLETION OF ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE, 1821 -- THE MATURE FOUNDATION OF THE GOOD LIFE: SPIRIT AND FREEDOM -- THE LIVING FORM OF THE GOOD LIFE -- THE IDEA OF THE GOOD LIFE.
  note: by Joshua D. Goldstein.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Political philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Man
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: B108-5802
  classification: 180-190
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in German Idealism, 7
  identifier: 9781402041921
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4192-6
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    record creation date: 100301
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