This book aims to explain some basic aspects of Hegel's conception of subjectivity with particular regard to the difference he saw in ancient and modern ways of thinking about and acting as individuals, persons and moral subjects.
ALLEGRA DE LAURENTIIS is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has been teaching and writing on the history of Western philosophy for the past twenty years.
Introduction A Philosophy of the History Philosophy The Experience of Thought Conceptualizing Thought Hegel's Reading of Plato's Parmenides Greek Moral Vocabulary: 'Shame is the Greatest Compulsion' Dialectic Matters: Starting Out with Simple Motion Works Cited Index