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Expanding Hegel to ethics. 3 Years, 1 Month ago
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In expanding Hegel's philosophy to the field of ethics, we'd either end up with a phronesis or an existentialist philosophy (as Kierkegaard did by doing this).
Do you think that phronesis and existentialism have some kind of deep connection?
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Re: Expanding Hegel to ethics. 3 Years, 1 Month ago
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Interesting that you'd put it this way. Of course, according to Hegel ethics cannot be understood apart from the larger implications of his system. I don't have the time now to do the argument justice, but Hegel's ethics are far from absolute and evolve over time as the Idea comes to understand itself. Interesting you'd think of it as phronesis of sorts, but how do you find Hegel an existentialist? That, to me, is odd, but I'd like to hear any thoughts on the subject.
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Re: Expanding Hegel to ethics. 3 Years, 1 Month ago
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Question: For Hegel is the evolution epistemological or metaphysical? Does moral truth itself change or does our knowledge of it and our applicaiton of it change?
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Re: Expanding Hegel to ethics. 3 Years, 1 Month ago
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Interesting that you'd put it this way. Of course, according to Hegel ethics cannot be understood apart from the larger implications of his system. I don't have the time now to do the argument justice, but Hegel's ethics are far from absolute and evolve over time as the Idea comes to understand itself. Interesting you'd think of it as phronesis of sorts, but how do you find Hegel an existentialist? That, to me, is odd, but I'd like to hear any thoughts on the subject.
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I don't find Hegel an existentialist, rather a relativist who paved the way for Kierkegaard and later Nietzsche (as well as alot of the post-modernists and phenomenologists like MacIntyre, Gadamer, and Ricoeur).
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Question: For Hegel is the evolution epistemological or metaphysical? Does moral truth itself change or does our knowledge of it and our applicaiton of it change?
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I think, for Hegel, it is a combination of both (though ultimate truth will be reached teleologically at the end of history).
Our knowledge of moral truth changes in the dialect, but for Hegel, truth itself is ever changing in the course of the dialect, but there is a teleological end to the dialect which would be "ultimate truth".
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Question: For Hegel is the evolution epistemological or metaphysical? Does moral truth itself change or does our knowledge of it and our applicaiton of it change?
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My long response time nothwithstanding, what is the difference? I see what you're getting at, but the Nietzschean in me sees no difference between a moral truth that changes per se and the changed application of an alleged moral "truth." There is really no difference between moral truth itself changing and our application of alleged metaphysical truths changing.
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