TY - CHAP
T1 - Sittlichkeit and the Actuality of Freedom
T2 - On Kant and Hegel
AU - Krijnen, C.H.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The relationship between Hegel’s conception of Sittlichkeit and Kant’s moral philosophy is much-discussed, highly controversial and accompanied by many misunderstandings. Relating it to Kant’s philosophy, this chapter shows that and how Hegel’s elaborations on Sittlichkeit can be understood as an attempt to comprehend the actuality of freedom in the human world. By contrast, the formalism of a Kantian approach of moral philosophy hinders it willy-nilly to comprehend the actuality, hence, the ‘fact’ of freedom properly. Hegel’s Sittlichkeit is a conception of the facticity of freedom.
AB - The relationship between Hegel’s conception of Sittlichkeit and Kant’s moral philosophy is much-discussed, highly controversial and accompanied by many misunderstandings. Relating it to Kant’s philosophy, this chapter shows that and how Hegel’s elaborations on Sittlichkeit can be understood as an attempt to comprehend the actuality of freedom in the human world. By contrast, the formalism of a Kantian approach of moral philosophy hinders it willy-nilly to comprehend the actuality, hence, the ‘fact’ of freedom properly. Hegel’s Sittlichkeit is a conception of the facticity of freedom.
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030265960
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-26597-7_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-26597-7_20
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030265960
SN - 9783030265991
T3 - Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism (PHGI)
SP - 389
EP - 407
BT - The Palgrave Hegel Handbook
A2 - Bykova, Marina
A2 - Westphal, Kenneth
PB - Palgrave / MacMillan
CY - Cham
ER -
