Hegel on “the Living Good”

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2021.1997402

F. Neuhouser

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Hegel calls social life “the living good,” but what this means is unclear. The idea expresses an ontological claim about the kind of being that human societies possess, but it is also normatively significant, clarifying why the category of social pathology is an appropriate tool of social critique. Social life consists in processes of life infused with ethical content. Societies are normatively and functionally constituted living beings that realize the good similarly to how organisms achieve their vital ends: via specialized, coordinated functions. In distinction to living organisms, the living good realizes itself through the consciousness and will of individual social members.

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黑格尔论“活着的善”

摘要黑格尔称社会生活为“生活的美好”，但这意味着什么还不清楚。这一观点表达了对人类社会所拥有的存在类型的本体论主张，但它也具有规范意义，阐明了为什么社会病理学范畴是社会批判的适当工具。社会生活包括充满伦理内容的生活过程。社会是在规范和功能上构成的生物，它们通过专门、协调的功能实现善，就像生物体如何实现其重要目的一样。与活的有机体不同，活的善通过个体社会成员的意识和意志来实现自己。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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