1st Edition

Hegel’s Civic Republicanism Integrating Natural Law with Kant’s Moral Constructivism

By Kenneth Westphal Copyright 2020
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, Westphal offers an original interpretation of Hegel’s moral philosophy. Building on his previous study of the role of natural law in Hume’s and Kant’s accounts of justice, Westphal argues that Hegel developed and justified a robust form of civic republicanism. Westphal identifies, for the first time, the proper genre to which Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice belongs and... Read more

Introduction

1 Hegel’s Moral Philosophy: a Conspectus

2 Modern Moral Epistemology

3 Natural Law Constructivism: Hobbes, Hume & Rousseau

4 Kant, Aristotle & our Fidelity to Reason

5 Kant, Hegel & our Fate as Zoôn Politikon

6 Hegel’s Justification of the Human Right to Non-Domination

7 Hegel, Natural Law & Moral Constructivism

8 The Analytical & Justificatory Structure of Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice

9 Hegel’s Standards of Political Legitimacy

10 The Centrality of Public Reason in Hegel’s Civic Republicanism

11 Hegel’s Civic Republicanism: Progressive Principles & Practices

Biography

Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boðaziçi University, Istanbul. He has authored or edited 12 books, including How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism (2016) and Realism, Science, and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2014).