What is up with those Germans?! They are so hard to understand.
I have to admit these weeks were the most tricky of the whole semester. Never had I read entire extracts over and over without knowing, exactly what it was about.
Tomorrow, a better recount on Pippin and Honneth's works.
Pippin
Pippin produced an analysis of Hegel's ideas of ethics as a reaction to Kant's much-famed ethical theory. Unlike Kant's foundational categorical imperative, Hegel looks at ethics contextually "indeed claiming that the human good consists in being actively related to others within certain institutions" and that the individual is linked by these external factors from which they can/are defined.
The ideas in ethical rationalism seemed very amenable. Although this reading was kind of dense and technical, I managed to understand some good notions:
- Mutual recognition
- What is considered to be a norm (crucial for me since I'm dealing with the law).
- The secularity of Reason itself
In chapter IV, everything became a lot more dense.
I have to admit these weeks were the most tricky of the whole semester. Never had I read entire extracts over and over without knowing, exactly what it was about.
Tomorrow, a better recount on Pippin and Honneth's works.
Pippin
Pippin produced an analysis of Hegel's ideas of ethics as a reaction to Kant's much-famed ethical theory. Unlike Kant's foundational categorical imperative, Hegel looks at ethics contextually "indeed claiming that the human good consists in being actively related to others within certain institutions" and that the individual is linked by these external factors from which they can/are defined.
The ideas in ethical rationalism seemed very amenable. Although this reading was kind of dense and technical, I managed to understand some good notions:
- Mutual recognition
- What is considered to be a norm (crucial for me since I'm dealing with the law).
- The secularity of Reason itself
In chapter IV, everything became a lot more dense.
