Hegel’s Value: Justice as the Living Good Dean Moyar

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197532535
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197532539
• Author(s): Dean Moyar

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right has long been recognized as the only systematic alternative to the dominant social contract tradition in modern political philosophy. Dean Moyar here takes on the difficult task of reading and representing Hegel’s view of justice with the same kind of intuitive appeal that has made social contract theory, with its voluntary consent and assignment of rights and privileges, such an attractive model. Moyar argues that Hegelian justice depends on a proper understanding of Hegel’s theory of value and on the model of life through which the overall conception of value, the Good, is operationalized.

Closely examining key episodes in Phenomenology of Spirit and the entire Philosophy of Right, Moyar shows how Hegel develops his account of justice through an inferentialist method whereby the content of right unfolds into increasingly thick normative structures. He asserts that the theory of value that Hegel develops in tandem with the account of right relies on a productive unity of self-consciousness and life, of pure thinking and the natural drives. Moyar argues that Hegel’s expressive account of the free will enables him to theorize rights not simply as abstract claims, but rather as realizations of value in social contexts of mutual recognition.

Table contents:

1. Political Moralism and Critical Realism

2. An Overlooked Theory of Value

3. Hegel’s Teleological Inferentialism

4. Justice and the Living Institutional System

5. The Basic Argument

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