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6Consequentialism and Deontology in the Philosophy of RightIn Thom Brooks (ed.), Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Notes References.
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Hegelian conscience as reflective equilibrium and the organic justification of sittlichkeitIn David James (ed.), Hegel's `Elements of the Philosophy of Right': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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32Hegel's philosophy of right: critical perspectives on freedom and history (edited book)Routledge. 2022.Hegel's Philosophy of Right was his last systematic work and the most complete statement of his mature views on ethical and political philosophy. It explores the relationships between three distinct conceptions of human freedom: persons as possessing contract rights, subjects as reflective moral agents, and individuals as members of an ethical community. It strongly influenced the early Marx and with the rise of debates over liberalism and communitarianism in the latter half of the twentieth cen…Read more
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20Hegel's ValueOxford University Press. 2021."Justice as the Living Good offers a comprehensive reading of Hegel's social and political philosophy. Two hundred years after the publication of his Philosophy of Right, Hegel's theory of justice remains a viable alternative to the social contract tradition in modern political theory. Hegel's Value shows that underlying Hegel's claims about freedom and history is a theory of value grounded in our dual nature as living and self-conscious beings. While Hegel follows the modern tradition in basing…Read more
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Fichte on the Content of ConscienceIn Stefano Bacin & Owen Ware (eds.), Fichte's _System of Ethics_: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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235How the Good Obligates in Hegel's Conception of Sittlichkeit: A Response to Robert Stern's Understanding Moral ObligationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (6): 584-605. 2012.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 concep…Read more
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14Naturalism in Ethics and Hegel's Distinction between Subjective and Objective SpiritHegel Bulletin 31 (1): 1-22. 2010.
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Hegel's Conscience: Radical Subjectivity and Rational InstitutionsDissertation, The University of Chicago. 2002.In this dissertation I explore the status of individual conscience in Hegel's practical philosophy. The place of conscience in Hegel's system has remained ambiguous because he both includes it in his System, and offers a resounding critique of a theory of normativity that takes conscience as an infallible, brute Given. The challenge is to understand how Hegel conceives of the relation between individual reliance on her own beliefs, on the one hand, and the social conception of rationality that H…Read more
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517The Inferential Object: Hegel’s Deduction and Reduction of ConsciousnessIn Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.), Bewusstsein/Consciousness, De Gruyter. pp. 119-144. 2016.
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142Unstable Autonomy: Conscience and Judgment in Kant's Moral PhilosophyJournal of Moral Philosophy 5 (3): 327-360. 2008.In this paper I argue that Kant's claims about conscience in his moral writings of the 1790s reveal a fundamental instability in his moral philosophy. The central issue is the relationship between the moral law as the form of universality and the judgment of individuals about specific cases. Against Thomas Hill's claim that Kant has only a limited role for conscience, I argue that conscience has a comprehensive role in Kantian deliberation. I unpack the claims about conscience in the Metaphysics…Read more
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18The Oxford Handbook of Hegel (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Features original articles by some of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Hegel's thought, The most comprehensive collection of Hegel scholarship available in one volume, Examines Hegel's writing in a chronological order, from his very first published works to his very last, Includes chapters on the newly edited lecture series Hegel conducted in the 1820s Book jacket.
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20The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2010.The nineteenth century is a period of stunning philosophical originality, characterised by radical engagement with the emerging human sciences. Often overshadowed by twentieth century philosophy which sought to reject some of its central tenets, the philosophers of the nineteenth century have re-emerged as profoundly important figures. The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Divided into seven parts and including…Read more
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327The First Person and the Moral LawKantian Review 20 (2): 289-300. 2015.Research Articles Dean Moyar, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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Urteil, Schluss und Handlung: Hegels logische Übergänge im Argument zur SittlichkeitHegel-Studien 42 51-79. 2007.
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24Review of Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (12). 2009.
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521Summary of "Hegel's Conscience"The Owl of Minerva 43 (1/2): 101-106. 2011.In this summary I introduce the interpretive framework for Hegel's Conscience and then provide an overview of the book’s six chapters
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37Review of Patrick Frierson, Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3). 2004.
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Self-completing alienation: Hegel's argument for transparent conditions of free agencyIn Dean Moyar & Michael Quante (eds.), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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310Reply to Howard, De Nys, and SpeightThe Owl of Minerva 43 (1/2): 149-177. 2011.In this response I first address the criticisms of omission by discussing some of the elements of the original project that were excluded in the final version (section 1). In section 2 I respond to Howard’s criticism that I assume too much transparency in conscience. In section 3 I discuss the problem of evil and the transition in the Phenomenology of Spirit from conscience to religion. I focus here especially on the distinction between Objective and Absolute Spirit, and on how that distinction …Read more
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21Review Essays: Embodied Agency and Liberal Institutions: Reframing and Reforming Hegel's Political TheoryPolitical Theory 35 (2): 200-206. 2007.
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14Review of Tilottama Rajan, Arkady Plotnitsky (eds.), Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (11). 2004.
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513Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, by Tom Rockmore (review)European Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 138-141. 2008.
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56Rethinking Autonomy in Hegel’s Earliest WritingsThe Owl of Minerva 42 (1/2): 63-88. 2010.This essay investigates the themes of autonomy and conscience in Hegel’s earliest writings. Though these themes play a large role in Hegel’s mature philosophy, they are largely absent from the writings in his Frankfurt and Jena periods before the publication of the Phenomenology of Spirit. The essay argues that essential elements of the mature position on autonomy and conscience can already be found in the treatments in the early writings of moral motivation, moral conflict, formal freedom, and …Read more
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Naturalism in Ethics and Hegel’s Distinction between Subjective and Objective SpiritBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 61 1-22. 2010.
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OF KANT, FICHTE and hegelIn The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 131. 2010.
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15Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader's Guide, by Stephen Houlgate. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, xi + 217 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-8510-6 hb $75.00, ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-8511-3 pb $16.95 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1). 2014.
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9The Oxford Handbook of Hegel (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Features original articles by some of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Hegel's thought, The most comprehensive collection of Hegel scholarship available in one volume, Examines Hegel's writing in a chronological order, from his very first published works to his very last, Includes chapters on the newly edited lecture series Hegel conducted in the 1820s Book jacket.
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28Hegel's Pluralism: History, Self-Conscious Action, and the ReasonableHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 24 (2). 2007.
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