Hegel's Idea of the Good Life

• Main Author: Goldstein, Joshua D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Studies in German Idealism, 7
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.; Political Science.

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 mode...

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.