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absolute spirit, ix, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, 7, 14, 52–53, 71, 189, 204–5, 282, 298, 363–65. See also objective spirit

actuality, xii, xiv, xix–xxviii, xxx, xxxii–xxxiii, 1, 7, 10–11, 20, 23, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42–45, 47, 49–50, 53, 61, 68–69, 71, 80, 84, 94, 118, 139, 148, 160, 164, 172–73, 185–86, 188, 194, 197, 200, 205, 223, 244–45, 273, 282, 288, 294, 296–97, 300, 302, 304, 306, 311, 313–15, 317, 320, 328–29, 332, 334, 336, 342–44, 348–49, 356–57, 366

Adorno, Theodor W., 337, 340, 352, 358, 371

ancient Greece, 144, 204

Aristotle, 57–58, 61, 77, 91, 109–10, 112, 123–56, 188, 190, 216, 252, 253, 254, 255–57, 265, 310, 319–20, 371

aufheben. See sublate

autonomy, xi, xxix, 5, 18, 24, 43, 101, 114, 143, 148, 157, 161, 186–89, 191, 194, 199, 258, 262, 267, 283–84, 286, 288, 290, 292–94, 297, 299, 306, 309, 326, 331, 337–38, 344

beautiful soul, 192–93, 298, 309, 319, 347

Begriff. See concept

bourgeois, v, xiv, xxxiii, 2, 17, 41, 46–47, 49, 58–59, 75, 91–92, 104–6, 108, 111, 115–16, 118–19, 121–29, 131, 133–39, 141–46, 149–51, 153–54, 157, 162, 168, 181, 186, 190, 192, 196, 229, 237, 239, 241, 250, 264–65, 267, 278, 313–14, 321, 323, 331, 339–42, 360, 372

Brandom, Robert, x, 372

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 338

Christ, xxix, 364

Christianity, 136, 141, 146, 189, 191, 258–59, 308, 356, 364–65

citizen, 36, 45, 47, 58, 66, 78, 106, 108, 111, 116, 119, 121–37, 141–46, 151, 156, 158–59, 161–62, 165, 168, 181, 186, 192, 196–97, 219, 222–23, 227, 229, 250, 252–55, 258, 260, 263–69, 271, 278, 313–16, 319, 321–22, 324, 327, 335, 339–42, 361, 374

citoyen, 98, 101, 121, 123–27, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 151, 160, 168, 379

civil society, xii, xiv, xv, xxxiii, xxxix, 16, 18, 36–49, 57, 73, 78, 81, 83, 91–92, 96, 98–99, 102–19, 127, 129, 132, 134, 136, 139, 141, 144–47, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 160–63, 165–71, 173–83, 195–205, 212, 214, 222, 226–31, 236, 240, 242–43, 245–50, 260–70, 274, 278, 287, 310–14, 322–28, 331, 336, 342–44, 346, 359, 361, 372, 380

class, 118, 120, 130, 134–36, 143, 147, 180, 202–3, 220, 323, 361

concept, xix, xxvi, xxvii–xxviii, xxx, 9–11, 19–21, 63–72, 351–66

contract, v, 2, 14, 28–29, 35, 51, 56, 58, 60, 61, 69, 75, 77, 78, 81–107, 114, 118, 124–25, 127–28, 132, 135, 143, 155, 157, 176, 234–35, 255–56, 259–62, 266, 270, 279, 340, 355, 378

contradiction, xii, xiv, xviii, xxx–xxxi, 4, 9–10, 18, 23, 48, 50, 56, 90, 98, 118, 126, 133, 160, 165, 168, 175, 185, 191, 193–94, 199–201, 203, 260, 276, 292, 294, 296–97, 303–6, 330, 346, 349, 353–57, 360–62, 366

Croce, Benedetto, x, 372

democracy, xi, xxix, 17, 112, 134–35, 153–54, 207–8, 212–31, 251–79, 321–22, 379

dialectic, ix, xv, xvii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, 5–6, 8, 13, 20, 23, 65, 79, 86, 111, 119, 141, 170, 184, 193, 203, 225, 302, 309, 328–29, 337, 352, 353, 355–60, 362–65, 366, 371; dialectical, xxiv, xxvi, 5–6, 8, 13, 20, 23, 111, 119, 170, 225, 329, 355, 358, 360, 366; master/slave dialectic, 78, 345

domination, 51, 77–80, 100, 120, 122, 137, 157–58, 232, 345

Enlightenment, 80, 100, 115, 117, 124, 144, 213, 259, 317, 337, 351, 359, 380

equality, xxi, 33, 36–37, 39, 97, 122, 127, 134–36, 151, 156, 169, 180, 203, 215, 221–26, 228–29, 252, 254–55, 257, 264, 268

estate, 34, 99, 109, 110, 115–17, 123, 137–38, 140, 143, 157, 163, 166, 178, 195, 197, 201, 203, 214, 223, 228–29, 237, 239–40, 243, 245, 247, 261, 264, 268, 311, 323–25, 339

ethicality, xxix–xxx, 12, 24–25, 37–39, 43, 56, 59, 61, 96, 115, 117, 135, 140–43, 146, 182–209, 285, 287–88, 292, 296, 300, 302, 304, 306, 330–51, 367

ethical life, 25, 278, 310, 330–31, 340, 344, 346, 349, 367

existence, xx–xxv, xxviii, 3–4, 17–19, 23, 25, 28, 31, 33, 37–41, 43–46, 51, 55, 59, 61, 68, 77, 84, 87, 89, 92, 102–3, 108–9, 111, 113–14, 117–18, 130–34, 138, 142, 144, 146, 148, 155, 160, 162, 164–66, 172–73, 175, 178, 181, 186–87, 189, 197, 199, 202, 213, 221, 229, 231, 233–34, 246, 257–58, 261, 265, 266, 269, 271, 273, 275, 280, 282, 295, 298–301, 304, 307, 310, 313, 315, 317–18, 342, 349, 353–54, 359, 363

faith, xiv, xvi, xviii, 131–32, 294, 315, 337, 365

Federalist Papers, 98, 153, 218–20, 234–35, 256, 273, 372

Fichte, J. G., 2, 11, 13, 19–20, 44, 58, 63, 67, 69, 93, 95, 114, 122, 127, 145, 170, 188–89, 283–84, 306, 346, 363, 369

free choice, 4, 8–9, 29–30, 222, 287, 343, 353, 368

freedom, xv, xviii, xxv, xxviii, xxix, 1, 3–8, 12–18, 21–33, 35–37, 39, 42–44, 46–49, 52–54, 59, 66–71, 74, 76–80, 83–87, 93, 99, 101, 104, 118, 126–27, 130, 132–35, 137–38, 144–45, 148, 151, 153, 156, 157, 159–62, 164–65, 168–70, 183–90, 192, 194, 196, 198–200, 203–5, 208, 216–17, 221, 222, 223–26, 247, 252, 256–59, 261–62, 269, 274–75, 278, 281, 288, 290–91, 295, 297, 299–304, 308, 310–16, 318–19, 328, 331–32, 335, 337–38, 340–41, 343–45, 349, 354–57, 360, 365, 374

free will, xi, 3–4, 6, 8, 12–13, 25, 31, 68, 70, 75, 78, 84–85, 186, 257, 288, 353

French revolution, 39, 49–50, 59, 101, 122, 124, 127, 129, 150, 165, 169, 188, 192, 213, 220, 225, 236–37, 242–43, 251, 253, 256, 258, 263, 266, 267, 275, 315, 318–19, 341, 379

Gesinnung, 135, 143, 194–95, 197, 310, 312, 318–19, 322–23

Greek polis. See polis

Grotius, Hugo, 77–78, 110, 188, 373

Haym, Rudolf, ix, xviii, xix, xxi–xxii, xxvii, xxviii, xxxi, 11, 17, 57, 147, 158, 207, 209, 211, 241, 373

Hegel, G. W. F.: on civil society, 147–82; concept of universal in, xxix, 6, 8, 30, 39, 41, 45, 49, 76, 85, 87, 90, 94, 101, 115, 127, 135, 143, 168, 178, 187, 190, 192, 194–95, 199, 201, 229, 240, 243, 250, 258, 314, 321; on the function of law, 55–81; on the importance of contract, 81–107; and institutions, 279–83, 312–51; and non-metaphysical readings of, vii–xvii; and Prussia, 209–12; relationship to Kantian morality, 283–312. See also concept; dialectic

Hobbes, Thomas, 26, 29, 32, 36, 41, 44–45, 50, 57–58, 60–62, 76, 78, 87, 89, 99, 105, 109–10, 112–13, 124–25, 155, 173, 177, 188, 233, 235–36, 243, 254, 269, 272, 374–75, 379

Honneth, Axel, xi, 208, 346, 374

idea, xxvi, 9, 16, 18, 20, 31, 38, 65, 89, 98, 148–49, 171, 179, 187, 195, 200, 249, 253, 268, 277, 284, 299–300, 304, 313, 332, 349, 362–63, 366

Kant, Immanuel, viii, xi, xiv, xxviii, 4–5, 10–11, 13, 15–16, 29–30, 38, 44, 56–58, 63, 67, 69, 75–76, 82, 113–14, 121–22, 125–27, 132, 136, 139, 141–42, 147–48, 150–53, 155, 158, 164, 166, 188–89, 218, 254, 273, 277–78, 282–312, 319, 321, 329, 339, 342, 344, 348, 355, 357, 369–70, 375–77

law, 15–81, 147–82. See also natural law

legality, 149, 154–55, 281, 285, 288

legal status, 15, 18

Leibniz, G. W., 341

liberalism, xv, 158, 169, 179, 237, 240, 250, 263, 273–75, 362, 373, 379

liberty, 44, 99–100, 110, 126–27, 145, 151, 160–61, 181, 221, 224, 226, 262, 264, 371, 373

love, 116, 125, 131, 140, 146, 195, 221, 224, 225, 278, 327, 339, 359, 360, 362

Marx, Karl, ix, 17, 42, 45, 57, 91, 106, 108, 117, 119–20, 140, 145, 170, 202–3, 227, 264, 337, 340, 346, 372, 376

McDowell, John, x, 376

metaphysics. See Hegel, G. W. F.: and non-metaphysical readings of

modernity, 1, 58–59, 104, 111, 126, 146, 162, 170, 192, 196, 212–13, 215–16, 219–20, 230, 250, 257, 261, 264, 276, 316–17, 331–32, 342

morality, 1, 7, 16, 24–27, 63, 70, 83, 108, 153, 184, 186–89, 193–94, 198–200, 283–312, 328–29, 332–33, 336, 342, 347, 357

natural law, 1, 16, 22, 25–26, 29, 33, 36, 45, 49–50, 55–63, 67–68, 72–79, 81, 94–95, 97–98, 100, 104, 108–10, 116, 124, 131, 134, 136, 142, 144, 151, 162–63, 168, 175, 182, 188, 190, 196, 220, 316–17, 331, 346, 369, 371, 373. See also law

nature, 12, 21–24, 27, 29, 31–34, 55–81, 100, 109–15, 126, 145, 188, 218, 325

normativity, xxx, 61, 63, 69–70, 194, 222, 277–78, 286, 288–89, 290–91, 300, 332, 344, 346–48, 356

objective spirit, iii–xxxiii, 1, 3–4, 6–16, 21–31, 45, 52–54, 62, 70–71, 74–75, 85–87, 105–6, 176, 182–90, 192–94, 198–201, 204, 207, 222, 259, 277–78, 280–82, 288, 298–303, 309, 320, 328–37, 340–41, 344–45, 348, 353, 354, 356, 357, 360, 362

objectivization, 7, 9–10, 22, 24, 26, 30, 32, 36, 43, 67

obligation, 3, 26, 43, 69, 82–83, 86, 90, 123, 149, 151, 187, 222, 268, 286, 288, 290, 293, 299, 311, 319, 323, 327, 335, 343

passion, 8, 215, 218, 221, 224–25, 263, 300, 318, 351–67

patriotism, 135, 140, 195, 316, 317, 321, 324, 327

people, 33, 35–36, 58–59, 64, 66, 93, 97, 115, 122, 125, 128, 130–31, 134–35, 137, 139, 152, 155–56, 166, 173, 218–20, 223–24, 227, 230, 233–37, 239, 240, 243–45, 247–50, 253–58, 260, 265, 269–72, 274, 314, 317–18, 320, 322, 326, 346

Pinkard, Terry, x, 369, 376

Pippin, Robert, x, xi, 376

Plato, xxviii, xxix, xxx, 51, 58–59, 143, 189, 256

polis, xxix, 56, 58–59, 100, 108–9, 115–16, 121, 123, 129–30, 132, 144–82, 188, 190–93, 258, 264, 316, 320

political, xxix, xxxiii, 2, 24, 29, 47–48, 57–60, 73, 78, 81, 88, 97–98, 100, 103, 105–11, 113–14, 117, 119, 121, 128, 131–33, 138, 142, 145, 148–49, 153–54, 157–58, 161, 167, 170, 177, 181, 196–97, 204, 207, 213–14, 219–20, 223–40, 242–45, 253, 255–60, 262–70, 272, 274–78, 312, 314, 316–22, 326–28, 335, 341–42, 361, 378

Polyani, Karl, 241

Polybius, 216

practical reason, 283–312

Prussia, ix, xvii, xix, 100, 147, 174, 207, 209–11, 242, 248

Quine, W. V. O., x

rabble, xii, 106, 168, 200–202, 270, 324, 361

rationality, xxi–xxxii, 12, 14, 23, 51, 53, 62, 65, 67, 77, 80, 95, 141, 156, 172, 174, 179–80, 187, 204, 216, 223, 240, 286, 296–97, 302, 309, 314–16, 321–22, 328–29, 348, 351–52, 354, 357–58, 362, 375

reason, 330–67. See also practical reason

Rechtzustand. See legal status

recognition, xi, 78–80, 83–86, 93, 105, 124, 143–44, 161, 169, 186, 192, 200, 306, 324, 333–36, 343, 345–46, 349, 356–57, 361, 374

Republic, xxviii, xxix, xxx–xxxi, 122–23, 125, 130–31, 136, 148, 150–54, 159, 213, 217, 232, 256, 273, 318, 321

Rousseau, J.-J., 29–30, 49, 58, 61, 74, 77–79, 90, 94–96, 99–100, 108, 121, 125–26, 132, 134–35, 138, 142, 146, 155, 188, 219, 234–36, 250, 253–56, 260–62, 266, 269–72, 274, 340, 355, 373, 377

Savigny, Friedrich Carl von, 13, 33–34, 56, 64–68, 174, 211

Schmitt, Carl, 18, 87, 89, 105–6, 131, 150, 154–55, 160, 180, 231, 275, 279–81, 378

self. See self-consciousness

self-consciousness, 85–86, 158, 183, 186–87, 194–95, 200, 312, 332, 345, 364, 366

Sittlichkeit. See ethicality

Smith, Adam, 40–41, 91, 107–8, 113, 144

sovereignty, 44, 99, 112, 123–28, 155, 218–20, 230–39, 248, 255–56, 265, 269–73, 275, 317

Spinoza, Baruch, 60, 254

spontaneity, 283, 297

state of nature, 29, 32, 36, 41–42, 45, 49–51, 57–58, 60–62, 78, 80, 85, 88, 109–12, 114, 145, 152, 167, 182–83, 235, 269, 308, 345, 355

subjectivity, 4, 7–9, 11–12, 19–20, 23, 25–26, 28, 31, 37, 68–69, 71, 76, 144, 184, 187–89, 193–95, 199, 200, 204–5, 259, 277–78, 282, 284, 287, 289, 296, 298–303, 308–15, 317–58, 360, 363

sublate, 4, 85, 175–76, 341, 349, 355, 362–63, 368

substance, 1, 5, 22, 24, 43, 100, 144, 183, 188–89, 195–96, 248, 287, 302, 307, 313, 315, 320, 332–34, 357, 363–64

Taylor, Charles, 338

terror, 47, 49, 101, 136, 169, 251, 264, 274, 314, 318–19

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 208, 212–31, 375, 379

tragedy, 346

universal. See Hegel, G. W. F.: concept of universal in

universal suffrage, 265–73

virtue, 116, 139, 142, 168–69, 195, 215, 258, 264, 299, 310–37, 355, 358

Weber, Max, 104, 149, 156–57, 232, 259, 275, 377, 380

will: objective, 4, 13–14, 30–32, 94, 282, 336, 353; subjective, 1, 10, 12, 23, 26, 30–31, 84, 164, 185, 198, 259, 282, 298–99, 305, 328, 336, 341, 349, 353

willing, 3, 5–13, 30–31, 84, 87, 99, 183, 233, 270, 284, 294, 299–300, 304, 312

Willkür. See free choice

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, x