caa a22 4500 388040114 CHVBK 20180307125018.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263523200001270 doi S0263523200001270 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263523200001270 Neuhouser Frederick Cornell University Ethical Life and the Demands of Conscience [Elektronische Daten] [Frederick Neuhouser] My aim in this paper is to investigate Hegel's claim that ethical life (Sittlichkeit) does not simply negate but rather incorporates, or preserves, crucial elements of the Enlightenment conception of moral subjectivity that Hegel associates with the standpoint of Morality (Moralität). More specifically, the part of Hegel's view I want to examine here is his claim that individual moral conscience (Gewissen) has its place within the rational social order as depicted in Part III of The Philosophy of Right, "Ethical Life”. There is a widespread perception among Hegel's liberal critics that his vision of the rational social order allows no place for the genuine expression of moral conscience. This is the view expressed, for example, in Ernst Tugendhat's recent charge that Hegel's view excludes the possibility of "adopting a rational perspective” on a society's prevailing norms and practices': "Hegel does not allow for the possibility of a responsible, critical relation to the ... state. Instead he tells us that existing laws have an absolute authority. The independent conscience of the individual must disappear, and trust takes the place of reflection. This is what Hegel means by the Aufhebung of morality into ethical life”. Copyright © The Hegel Society of Great Britain 1998 Hegel Bulletin Cambridge University Press 19/1-2(1998), 35-50 0263-5232 19:1-2<35 1998 19 HGL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263523200001270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263523200001270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Neuhouser Frederick Cornell University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hegel Bulletin Cambridge University Press 19/1-2(1998), 35-50 0263-5232 19:1-2<35 1998 19 HGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge