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Freedom and Reflection - Hegel and the Logic of Agency (Hardcover)
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Freedom and Reflection - Hegel and the Logic of Agency (Hardcover)
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There are many insightful discussions of Hegel's practical
philosophy that emphasize the uniqueness of his expressivist and
social theory of agency, but few recognize that these two aspects
of Hegel's theory of the will are insufficient to avoid the
traditional problem of free will. In fact, the problem can easily
be shown to recur in the very language used to express why Hegel's
theory is a theory of freedom at all. In part, this lack of
recognition results from the fact that there has not yet been a
study of Hegel's theory of the will that has formulated the problem
against the background of the contemporary literature on free will,
where basic concerns about the explicability of action loom large.
By using the continuity between the contemporary concerns and those
of Hegel's predecessors (particularly Kant), Yeomans shows the
necessity of reference to the Logic in order to supplement Hegel's
own practical philosophy and the scholarship based on it. In
addition to adding significantly to our understanding of Hegel's
theory of agency and recapturing its significance with respect to
continuing modern reflection on free will, this study also shows
that Hegel's Logic can do some real philosophical work on a
specific problem.
Though Hegel's logical terminology is notorious for its
impenetrability, Yeomans translates Hegel's jargon into a more
easily comprehensible vocabulary. He further helps the reader by
providing introductory discussions framing the central issues of
each chapter both in terms of the problem of free will and in terms
of the development of Hegel's argument to that point in the Logic.
Presenting the reader with frequent use of examples, Yeomans
leavens the abstractness of Hegel's presentation and makes the
topic accessible to readers new to Hegel as well as those well
versed in his work.
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