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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1740-4681
- eISSN
- 1745-5243
- DOI
- 10.1163/174046809X12464327133492
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Journal of Moral Philosophy 6 (2009) 535–537 JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY brill.nl/jmp © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/174046809X12464327133492 Book Reviews Ido Geiger, Th e Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), 173 pp. ISBN 9780804754248 (hbk). Hardback/Paperback: £37.50/–. Th e central problem Geiger wants to explore in his interesting and lucid contribution to the scholarship on Hegel’s political philosophy is the paradox surrounding the founding act of the state. For Geiger, the Hegelian contribution to this age-old problem comes in the form of the historical normativity implied by the Doppelsatz : ‘what is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational’ (G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right , ed. A.W. Wood, trans. H.B. Nisbet [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991], p. 20) and in Hegel’s theory of war and revolution as the destruction and rebirth of value. In the light of these two theses, Geiger reformulates Hegel’s critique of Kant, arguing that Hegel agrees with Kant about the need for refl ection in ethical life, but seeks to understand what is to be refl ected on. What is to be refl ected
Journal
Journal of Moral Philosophy – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009