Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (6):584-605 (2012)
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In Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Robert Stern argues that Hegel has a social command view of obligation. On this view, there is an element of social command or social sanction that must be added to a judgment of the good in order to bring about an obligation. I argue to the contrary that Hegel's conception of conscience, and thus the individual's role in obligation, is more central to his account than the social dimension. While agreeing with Stern that Hegel's conception of Sittlichkeit does preserve a role for obligation, and that the social plays an important part in that account, I argue that there is no extra social component that converts the morally good into obligation. Rather, Hegel's conception of Sittlichkeit as the “living good” means that judgments of the moral facts are simultaneously judgments of obligation.
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DOI | 10.1080/0020174x.2012.746036 |
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right.Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel - 1991 - Cambridge University Press.
Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard.Robert Stern - 2011 - Cambridge University Press.
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