Ideas y Valores (Aug 2015)
Hegel the Normativist. The Priority of Practice, Self-Consciousness as a Social Achievement and Subject of Normative States in Chapter IV of the Phenomenology of Spirit
Abstract
The normativist conception of Hegelian self-consciousness according to the contributions of the so-called “Pittsburgh neo-Hegelians” (Robert Brandom, John McDowell) is developed along with the contributions of other English-speaking scholars such as Robert Pippin, Terry Pinkard and Paul Redding. An overview is given of selfconsciousness as laid out in chapter IV of the Phenomenology of Spirit, and some of the features that can be extracted from this overview are developed according to a normativist reading of the authors mentioned.
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