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Hegel's Theory of Normativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2016

MARK ALZNAUER
MARK ALZNAUER*
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYm-alznauer@northwestern.edu
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Abstract:

This essay offers an interpretation of Hegel's theory of normativity according to which normative evaluation is primarily a matter of a thing's answerability to its own constitutive norms. I show that natural and spiritual norms correspond to two different species of normative evaluation for Hegel, two categorically distinct ways something can violate its own constitutive norms. I conclude with some general reflections on the relationship between normativity and ontology in Hegel's system.

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history of philosophyHegelnineteenth-century philosophyethicsagency

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Journal of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 2016 , pp. 196 - 211
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