This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of
G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for
specialists in German Idealism, but also to provide an analysis
that makes Hegel's ethics accessible for all scholars working in
ethical and political philosophy. While Hegel's political
philosophy has received a good deal of attention in the literature,
the core of his ethics has eluded careful exposition, in large part
because it is contained in his claims about conscience. This book
shows that, contrary to accepted wisdom, conscience is the central
concept for understanding Hegel's view of practical reason and
therefore for understanding his ethics as a whole. The argument
combines careful exegesis of key passages in Hegel's texts with
detailed treatments of problems in contemporary ethics and
reconstructions of Hegel's answers to those problems. The main
goals are to render comprehensible Hegel's notoriously difficult
texts by framing arguments with debates in contemporary ethics, and
to show that Hegel still has much to teach us about the issues that
matter to us most. Central topics covered in the book are the
connection of self-consciousness and agency, the relation of
motivating and justifying reasons, moral deliberation and the
holism of moral reasoning, mutual recognition, and the rationality
of social institutions.
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