Hegel's Value

Dean Moyar is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-editor (with Michael Quante) of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2007), the editor of the Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy (2010) and of the Oxford Handbook of Hegel (2017). He is the author of Hegel's Conscience (Oxford University Press, 2011).

• Introduction1. Political Moralism and Critical Realism2. An Overlooked Theory of Value3. Hegel's Teleological Inferentialism4. Justice and the Living Institutional System 5. The Basic ArgumentChapter 1: Individual Right and the Living Ethical Order1.1. Mutual Recognition and the Externalism of Modern Right1.2. The Critique of Fichte and the Appeal to Life1.3. Self-Consciousness and the Rationality of Life1.4. The Emergence of Value in the Work of the Servant 1.5. The Tragedy of Immediate JusticeChapter 2: The Inferences of Right2.1. Free Spirit and Infinite Value2.2. Expressively Valid Inferences of the Free Will 2.3. Immanent Development and the Basic Argument of RightChapter 3: Value in the Development and Conclusion of Abstract Right 3.1. The Purpose of Personality 3.2. Property Rights as Expressions of the Free Will3.3. Value as the "true substantiality" of Property3.4. Forms of Value as Types of Alienation3.5. Contract and Inferential Equivalence Value3.6. The Inferentialism of Crime and Punishment3.7. Value in the Transition to Morality Chapter 4: The Incorporation of Subjective Value into the Good4.1. The Process and Purpose of Morality 4.2. The Deficient Practical Inference of the Deed4.3. Objective and Subjective Value in Intentional Action4.4. The Right of Necessity and the Transition to Universal Value4.5. The Good as the Final Purpose of the World4.6. Conscience and Reflective EquilibriumChapter 5: The Living Good5.1. Sittlichkeit as the Just System of Value5.2. The System of Practical Inferences5.3. Ethical Mutuality and the Equivalence of Rights and Duties5.4. How to Build a Living Institution5.5. The Family as the Living GoodChapter 6: The Circulation of Value in Civil Society and the State6.1. Completing the Inference of Needs through Education 6.2. The Value of Work and the Division into Estates6.3. The Return of the Good in "The Police and the Corporation"6.4. Settling One's Own Account with the State6.5. The Living State as a Totality of Inferences6.6. The Executive Branch and Governance "From Below"Chapter 7: Law and Public Reason7.1. Inferentialism and Processes of Law7.2. Hegel's Legal Positivism 7.3. The Contextualism of Justice and the Limits of Philosophy7.4. The Court as the Prototype of Public Reason7.5. Hegel's Constitutionalism7.6. Public Reason and Representative Interests Chapter 8: The Sovereignty of the Good8.1. Internal Sovereignty and the Justice of the Whole8.2. External Sovereignty and Mutual Recognition between States8.3. Purpose and Justice in History8.4. Moral and Civil Religion8.5. Liberation and Reconciliation

Moyar has succeeded in identifying a teleological theory of value that runs through Hegel's discussions of rights, contract, law, the family, and the state, one that avoids the pitfalls of both ideal theory and stark realism ... Moyar's book is lucidly written, engages a broad range of contemporary thinkers, and offers an insightful and original perspective on Hegel's political theory.