scholarly journals Die Idee einer Hegelianischen ,Wissenschaft‘ der Gesellschaft

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Neuhouser
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Senses ◽  
State Form

AbstractThis paper sets out the kind of intellectual enterprise Hegel’s science of society is by explaining its aim (reconciliation) and the method it employs to achieve that aim. It argues that Hegel’s science of society, similar to Smith’s and Marx’s, offers an account of the good social order that is grounded in both an empirical understanding of existing institutions and a normative commitment to a certain vision of the good life. It spells out the criteria Hegel appeals to in his judgment that the modern social order is fundamentally good and worthy of affirmation, namely, that its three principal institutions−the family, civil society, and the constitutional state−form a coherent and harmonious whole that promotes the basic interests of all its members in a way that also realizes freedom in all three of the senses relevant to social theory: personal, moral, and social freedom.

Materialisation of the Good Life in the New House

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Lan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rural Architecture ◽  
Family House

Abstract Over the past two decades, Chinese rural architecture has experienced dramatic changes through the Building the Chinese Socialist New Village movement. Thousands of new houses, particularly in the model of the New Village, have risen abruptly out of the ground. These Western-style new houses with a garden (huayuan yangfang), which often appear in the media as typical family houses in Western society, largely represent the image of the good life of the state and the peasant in contemporary China. In this article, I focus on how the family house is produced and consumed in Baikou New Village in south China. By presenting the materiality of the dwelling space, this paper probes the intertwined processes of the materialisation of the blueprint of the good life and how the new houses influence family life (especially intergenerational relationships) in post-socialist Baikou New Village.

5. Ethics

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Brad Inwood
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Wise Person ◽  
The Family

Ethics is the part of the Stoics’ legacy that is most prominent and influential today. Their theory of the good life for human beings falls into the family of theories associated with Socrates and his followers. This tradition includes Plato and most Platonists, Xenophon, the Cynics, Aristotle, and later Aristotelians, all of whom share the view that virtue, the excellence of a human being, is the highest value and is its own reward. ‘Ethics’ discusses the Stoics’ views on human nature and rationality; the four basic virtues: justice, courage, wisdom, and moderation or self-control; and the doctrine that the fully rational and wise person will be free of passions.

Sociology as Practical Philosophy and Moral Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Vandenberghe
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Moral Science ◽  
Sociological Tradition ◽  
Norms And Values

The philosophical assumptions that organize moral sociology as practical philosophy are the outcome of a secular quest to investigate the principles, norms and values behind the constitution of society. As a protracted response to the whole utilitarian-atomistic-individualistic tradition that systematically deemphasizes the constitutive role that morality plays in the structuration of self and society, the sociological tradition has continued, by its own means, the tradition of moral and practical philosophy in theoretically informed empirical research of social practices. Going back to classic moral philosophy, I want to show in this article how social theory is involved in the quest for ‘the good life with and for the others in just institutions’ (Ricoeur).

scholarly journals Reworking the Social Order: Skam as an Instance of Public Moral Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Andreas Kvamme
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
The Social

AbstractThe Norwegian high-school drama series Skam is produced and published by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, a publicly funded institution distinguished by an explicit obligation to the public interest, not only serving their audience as consumers but even as citizens. Generally, the normativity expressed in Skam may be summarized by treating all with respect, involving not only moral considerations of what is right, but also ethical conceptions of what is good, offered, opened up and obstructed by the living social order established there. In season three, given attention here, the plot revolves around issues concerning same-sex relationships, mental disorder and religion. Here Skam becomes interesting for the field of moral education, elaborating on how to encounter the challenges of pluralistic societies that undergo continuous changes and in which common values have become open questions. In this paper attention is drawn toward Skam’s ethical dimension, considering Skam as an instance of public moral education. Faced with tensions, hindrances and conflicts, the norm of treating all with respect, irrespective of how trivial it may appear outside of context, becomes loaded with meaning, while the actualization of the good life is at risk. Appalling is the way hegemonic religion is transformed in the living social order. Decisive is the active role taken by the youths in the series, recontextualizing the norm. The social order here is not a static, given condition, but a continuous, moving, cultivating project. In that respect, a certain democratic aspect of the public moral education of Skam also becomes visible. Together, the youths portrayed in the series seem to accommodate a variety of expressions of life emerging within their community.

scholarly journals Prostitution and the Good of Sex

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-784
Author(s):  
Natasha McKeever ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Good Life

In Sascha Settegast’s recently published article, “Prostitution and the Good of Sex” in Social Theory and Practice, he argues that prostitution is intrinsically harmful. In this article, I object to his argument, making the following three responses to his account: 1) bad sex is not “detrimental to the good life”; 2) bad sex is not necessarily unvirtuous; 3) sex work is work as well as sex, and so must be evaluated as work in addition to as sex.

scholarly journals Den egyptiske revolution 2011 og det gode liv – en analyse af slogans og sange

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Line Mex-Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Revolution

Artiklen analyserer forestillinger om det gode liv, som de kom til udtryk i udvalgte sange og slogans på Tahrir-pladsen under den egyptiske revolution i 2011. Det gode liv forstås i denne artikel i kontekst af moderne forståelser om social orden og individets plads heri. I artiklen beskrives det, hvordan livet før revolutionen blev set som et kuet liv i ydmygelse, mens livet under revolutionen blev set som et stolt liv i handlen. Herfra konkluderes det, at omdrejningspunktet i forestillingerne om det gode liv, som de kom til udtryk i slogans og sange under den egyptiske revolution, er agens.The article analyses imaginaries of the good life as they were expressed in selected slogans and songs during the Egyptian revolution in 2011. In slogans and songs from the revolution, life before the revolution is described as a cowed life in humiliation whereas life during the revolution is described as a proud life where people can act on their own. From these descriptions, the article finds that agency is the focal point in the imaginaries of the good life as they were expressed in slogans and songs during the Egyptian revolution. Theoretically, the article takes its point of departure in theories of modernity and modern subjectivity formation. The article argues that the imaginaries of the good life expressed during the Egyptian revolution draws on global, modern imaginaries. These global imaginaries are, however, interpreted locally. By placing the Egyptian revolution and the slow social transformation it represents in a specific modern context, the article argues that it is indeed both possible andfruitful to analyze Egyptian social matters as belonging to the modern social order.

LIBERDADE E ECONOMIA NA FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO DE HEGEL

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (107) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Arnaldo Fortes Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Thematic Relation ◽  
New Social Order

Este artigo trata da concepção hegeliana de liberdade na sociedade civil. Destaca a parte relativa à liberdade de mercado na qual ficam caracterizados os limites intransponíveis para o exercício da eticidade e, conseqüentemente, de uma combinação real entre ética e economia numa sociedade organizada sob o primado do mercado. Na relação temática entre liberdade e sociedade civil, Hegel formulou de maneira precursora uma Teoria Social de caráter alternativo à experiência de traço liberal. O papel dessa teoria é formular, de maneira integrada, os temas econômico, político e do direito de uma nova ordem social verdadeiramente humanista. Por isso, o paradigma hegeliano de liberdade institui um contraponto radical à concepção de liberdade de mercado com a qual o liberalismo econômico construiu a teoria capitalista de organização de sociedade, incluindo o atual modelo da teoria econômica neoliberal globalizada.Abstract: This article deals with the hegelian conception of freedom in the civil society. It emphasizes the part relative to the freedom of market in which are characterized the insuperable limits for the exercise of the ethicity and, consequently, a real combination between ethics and economy in a society organized under the primate of the market. About the thematic relation between freedom and civil society, Hegel formulated in precursory way a Social Theory of alternative character to the experience of liberal imprint. The role of this theory is to formulate, in comprehensive way, the economic, political and juridical themes of a new social order truly humane. Therefore, the hegelian paradigm of freedom establishes a radical counterpoint to the conception of freedom of market with which economic liberalism has constructed the capitalist theory of society organization, including the current model of the global new-liberal economic theory.

Civil Society and Its Discontents: The Good Life

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Tita Chico
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life

scholarly journals Confucian Harmony in Dialogue with African Harmony: A Response

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyang Li
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Central Place ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Confucian Philosophy ◽  
Equal Split

Engaging in dialogue with African philosophy, I respond to questions raised by Thaddeus Metz on characteristics of Confucian philosophy in comparison with African philosophy. First, in both Confucian philosophy and African philosophy, harmony/harmonization and self-realization coincide in the process of person-making. Second, Confucians accept that sometimes it is inevitable to sacrifice individual components in order to achieve or maintain harmony at large scales; the point is how to minimize such costs. Third, Confucians give family love a central place in the good life before extend love to the rest of the world. Fourth, the Confucian philosophy of gender equality is based on appropriate division of labor consistent with its yin-yang philosophy, rather than equal split of power in the family. Fifth, in the Confucian view, hierarchy and harmony do not necessarily contradict each other, though hierarchy is not essential to all forms of harmony. The two can co-exist.

Masters (zi子)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebke Denecke
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Philosophical Thought

“Masters Literature” constitutes China’s most influential and productive repository of philosophical thought, featuring debates about fundamental questions of social order, the good life, governance, heavenly justice, human character, and the cosmos. The chapter first discusses how people have defined the Masters corpus from antiquity to the present and how divergent definitions affect our understanding of this textual genre. It then surveys the most important intellectual camps and approaches within Masters Literature, namely Confucians, Mohists, Persuaders, Lao-Zhuang and Huang-Lao Daoism, statecraft specialists, encyclopedic compendia, and Han masters and scholar-officials, asking in each case what central intellectual concerns were at stake and what major rhetorical formats and strategies were used to make convincing arguments. Lastly, it touches on how Masters Literature is significant today and what kind of debates it has catalyzed for the present.

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