Filozofija i drustvo 2011 Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages: 37-60
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1104037H
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Ethics as ethical rebellion: Good as the externalization of particularity in Hegel’s elements of the philosophy of right
Haber Ana
Effectuation of Good in Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right consists
in neither happiness nor welfare but in deliberate and courageous
externalization of particular will. Such notion of Good works directly
contrary to the “good” as social peace where people are entertained by
comfort and therefore maintained in the status of masses. Compensating the
lack of one’s freedom by comfort is rather a characteristic of the world of
Abstract Right (which Morality is on the path of overcoming). Abstract Right
is synonymous with the right of might because in it, righteousness is
defined through contractual in(justice).
Keywords: joy, particularity, universality, conscience, evil, good