Ethical Life
The third stage: family, civil society, state. Here inner and outer coincide — in an ethical order, someone does what he wants and wants what the order requires.
Not meant
propriety or decency. What is meant is the constitution in which relations and convictions correspond to one another.
Developed in
Part V
Cross-references
Nicht gemeint
propriety or decency. What is meant is the constitution in which relations and convictions correspond to one another.
Der gefährliche punkt
Whether an order fulfills this condition is a question addressed to it, not information about it. Whoever confuses the two turns an analysis into a justification.
Entwickelt in
Part V
In der logik
Enc. Vol. 1 §§ 216–222 — the idea of life. Hegel calls ethical life "the living good" (Phil. of Right § 142), thereby explicitly invoking this logical form. Cf. [[kleine-logik:19]].