Hegel's Practical Philosophy

by Robert B. Pippin

Book Overview

This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of agency, the view that agency is not exclusively a matter of the self-relation and self-determination of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052172872X
• ISBN13: 9780521728720
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"