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    Hegel's Theory of Normativity.Mark Alznauer - 2016 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2 (2):196-211.
    ABSTRACT:This essay offers an interpretation of Hegel's theory of normativity according to which normative evaluation is primarily a matter of a thing's answerability to its own constitutive norms. I show that natural and spiritual norms correspond to two different species of normative evaluation for Hegel, two categorically distinct ways something can violate its own constitutive norms. I conclude with some general reflections on the relationship between normativity and ontology in Hegel's system.
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    Hegel's Theory of Responsibility.Mark Alznauer - 2015 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    A crucial aspect of Hegel's practical philosophy is his theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions. But even those who agree that there is something valuable in Hegel's emphasis on sociality are not in agreement about what that something is or about how Hegel argues for it. Mark Alznauer offers the first book-length account of the structure of the (...)
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    Hegel on tragedy and comedy: new essays.Mark Alznauer (ed.) - 2021 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    Explores the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.
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    Rival Versions of Objective Spirit.Mark Alznauer - 2016 - Hegel Bulletin 37 (2):209-231.
    To assert the primacy of objective spirit is to claim that certain distinctively human capacities, such as thinking and acting, are not capacities we have as individuals considered singly but are in some way dependent on shared public norms or social institutions. In this essay, I provide a brief history of arguments for the primacy of objective spirit from Hegel to the present, identifying three distinct strategies for defending this thesis: the teleological argument, the sociological argument and the quasi-transcendental argument. (...)
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    Untrue Concepts in Hegel's Logic.Mark Alznauer - 2023 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (1):103-126.
    Abstractabstract:In the following, I argue that Hegel took concepts—not propositions, judgments, or spatiotemporal objects—as the primary truth-bearer in his logic and attempt to offer a defensible interpretation of what it means for an individual concept (or "thought-determination") to be assessed as true or untrue. Along the way, I consider the shortcomings of several alternative interpretations of truth in Hegelian logic, paying particular attention to the now-common contention that a commitment to something like Frege's context principle prevents Hegel from assessing concepts (...)
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    Ethics and History in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy.Mark Alznauer - 2012 - Review of Metaphysics 65 (3):581-611.
    Hegel’s contextualization of ethics in history has often been understood as implying the possibility of “world-historical” justifications for unethical actions. Critics have seen this as a category mistake that violates the authority of the ethical sphere; defenders have argued that it represents one of Hegel’s most revolutionary insights, the idea that customary morality should not stand in the way of human liberation. In this essay, I argue that both of these reactions are based on failure to properly distinguish between rational (...)
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  7. Hegel on legal and moral responsibility.Mark Alznauer - 2008 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (4):365 – 389.
    When Hegel first addresses moral responsibility in the Philosophy of Right, he presupposes that agents are only responsible for what they intended to do, but appears to offer little, if any, justification for this assumption. In this essay, I claim that the first part of the Philosophy of Right, “Abstract Right”, contains an implicit argument that legal or external responsibility (blame for what we have done) is conceptually dependent on moral responsibility proper (blame for what we have intended). This overlooked (...)
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    Is Hegel a Natural Law Constructivist?Mark Alznauer - 2016 - The Owl of Minerva 48 (1/2):45-56.
    In a series of impressive articles, Kenneth Westphal argues that Hegel should be understood as a natural law constructivist. In this essay, I examine what Westphal means by this, showing that any such position requires postulating rights or duties that exist prior to the formation of political institutions. I show that Hegel consistently denies the existence of any such natural rights or duties and conclude that he must have a fundamentally different, non-foundationalist conception of the fundamental task of moral philosophy.
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    Wordsworth and the Idea of a Poetic Theodicy.Mark Alznauer - 2023 - Philosophy and Literature 46 (2):263-279.
    Abstract:Claims are often made that, in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century, artists attempted to take over certain functions from religion, particularly the function of redeeming the world. But what exactly it might mean for art to redeem the world is rarely treated with any precision. In this essay, I show that Wordsworth's idea of a poetic theodicy offers an unusually clear and appealing form of the redemptive view of art, which, when properly understood, is less vulnerable to (...)
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    Chapter 10. Hegel on the Conceptual Form of Philosophical History.Mark Alznauer - 2021 - In Samuel Stoner & Paul Wilford (eds.), Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 165-184.
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    (2 other versions)Kierkegaard's Critique of Hegel's Inner‐Outer Thesis.Mark Alznauer - 2016 - Heythrop Journal 57 (6).
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    Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists by Ryan S. Kemp and Christopher Iacovetti.Mark Alznauer - 2021 - Review of Metaphysics 75 (2):382-384.
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    Secularizing Kenosis.Mark Alznauer - 2016 - Philosophy Today 60 (2):609-614.
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    The Role of "Morality" in Hegel's Theory of Action.Mark Alznauer - 2012 - The Owl of Minerva 44 (1/2):67-92.
    Michael Quante has successfully shown that the “Morality” section of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right provides an account of the cognitive conditions that must be satisfied for the imputation of actions. In this essay, I argue that Quante’s picture of these conditions is misleadingly cropped, obscuring the fact that the specific cognitive conditions Hegel places on agency are much stronger than has been recognized, and of a different kind. This suggests a much different interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy of action, one that (...)
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    Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, by Robert Stern.Mark Alznauer - 2014 - Mind 123 (492):1246-1249.
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    Theories of action and morality: perspectives from philosophy and social theory.José María Torralba & Mark Alznauer (eds.) - 2016 - Hildesheim: Georg Olms.
    Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays erörtern die Frage nach der Möglichkeit des Verstehens menschlichen Handelns ohne den Rückbezug auf moralische Werte und Normen. Obwohl die Autoren sich dieser Frage auf ganz unterschiedliche, manchmal divergierende, Weisen nähern, verbindet sie alle die Annahme, es sei nicht wünschenswert oder sogar inkohärent, das menschliche Handeln grundsätzlich unabhängig von moralischen Werten zu betrachten. Die Herausgeber haben sich um eine für Philosophen und Gesellschaftswissenschaftler gleichermaßen attraktive Beitragssammlung bemüht. Die Verknüpfung philosophischer und soziologischer Perspektiven könnte zur (...)
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    Jacob McNulty, Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-316-51256-2. Pp. xxi + 264. £75/$99.00. [REVIEW]Mark Alznauer - 2024 - Hegel Bulletin 45 (1):175-179.
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    Hegel on Action, edited by ArtoLaitinen and ConstantineSandis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xv + 302 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐230‐22908‐2 hb £55. [REVIEW]Mark Alznauer - 2012 - European Journal of Philosophy 20 (4):636-640.
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    Martina F. Bykova (ed). Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-107-19554-7 (hbk). Pp. 290. £75.00. [REVIEW]Mark Alznauer - forthcoming - Hegel Bulletin:1-4.
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    Review of Allen Speight, The Philosophy of Hegel[REVIEW]Mark Alznauer - 2008 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8).
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  21. Thomas A. Lewis, Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel. [REVIEW]Mark Alznauer - 2012 - Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 42 (1):114-118.
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