Ethical Life

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Ethical Life is Hegel’s concept of a concrete social and institutional order in which individual freedom is realized through participation in family, civil society, and the state.

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Ethical Life canonical 1
Ethical Life (Sittlichkeit) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hegelian concept
philosophical concept
social philosophy concept
aimsAt realization of freedom
belongsTo objective spirit
contrastsWith abstract right
morality
emphasizes ethical norms embodied in institutions
participation in social practices
hasAuthor G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
hasComponent civil society
family
state
hasGoal actualization of rational freedom
reconciliation of individual and community
hasLanguageOfOrigin German
hasOriginalName Sittlichkeit
includesSphere constitutional state
corporations in civil society
marriage
property relations in civil society
influenced 20th-century social philosophy
communitarian political theory
isCharacterizedAs concrete social order
institutional order
unity of individual and universal will
isDiscussedIn Philosophy of Right
surface form: Elements of the Philosophy of Right
isGroundedIn social institutions
isInterpretedBy Axel Honneth
Charles Taylor
Jürgen Habermas
Robert Pippin
isMediatedBy customs
laws
social practices
isOpposedTo atomistic individualism
purely subjective morality
isPartOf Philosophy of Right
surface form: Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Hegel's practical philosophy
isStageIn development of objective spirit
presupposes moral subjectivity
system of rights
realizes individual freedom
social freedom
requires economic institutions
legal institutions
political institutions
recognition among individuals
viewsFreedomAs being at home in the social world

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Philosophy of Right hasPart Ethical Life
Abstract Right precedes Ethical Life
this entity surface form: Ethical Life (Sittlichkeit)