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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• WILFORD, PAUL T.

Titel

THE THEOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF AGENCY: FORGIVENESS, RECOGNITION, AND RESPONSIBILITY IN HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT

Ist Teil von

• The Review of metaphysics, 2019-03, Vol.72 (3 (287)), p.497-528

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Philosophy Education Society Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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• [...]I raise the question of whether Hegel's attempt to transfigure religious teaching runs aground on the idea of forgiveness. Yet given that duty is all that is essential, it must be realizable in the world. [...]the agent is led to believe in the harmony of duty and nature, of morality and happiness, but projects this reconciliation into an infinitely remote future, and thus generates an "absolute task" of reforming sensuous instincts to be in "conformity with morality. [...]although agents share a universal, there is no indication of intersubjective reconciliation as a response to a violation of the moral law. [...]forgiveness, however, turns on a prudential calculation of the realization of one's own and the community's good. [...]since one can know independently of one's own violations of the moral law, self-knowledge does not require the kind of intersubjective recognition operative in Hegel's account of forgiveness. 43 What opposes duty in die moralische Weltanschauung is not evil, but simple non-self-sufficient (unselbständig) nature.