Ethics in Progress - Research Journal

Explore how Hegel’s vision of organism and selfhood enriches contemporary theories of life as self-maintaining, purposive, and autonomous.

Read an article by Dieter Wandschneider: Life as Self-Maintenance

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Life as Self-Maintenance | ETHICS IN PROGRESS The article constructs the organism as a living being and – unlike an automaton – as an individual concerned with its own self-maintenance, endowed with intrinsic purposiveness, autoregulation, and with an agency of the self as well. This is done from the perspective of the philosophy of organis...

Explore how Hegel’s nuanced account of animal subjectivity confronts our enduring moral contradictions toward animals.

Read an article by Timo Ennen: "Animals We Eat and Animals We Care for: Hegel’s Ambiguous Notion of the Animal as Soul".

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Animals We Eat and Animals We Care for: Hegel’s Ambiguous Notion of the Animal as Soul | ETHICS IN PROGRESS There is a fundamental contradiction in most people’s behaviour towards animals. On certain occasions, we pet, nurture, name and even talk to them. On other occasions, we put up with or even endorse slaughtering and eating them. While this contradiction takes on a particular shape in times of mode...

Explore how Hegel’s speculative method reveals vitality as a force that resists decay and drives the rise of consciousness toward spiritual fullness.

Read an article by Ivo Minkov: "Deduction of the Concept of ‘Vitality’ in Hegel’s Philosophy".

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Deduction of the Concept of ‘Vitality’ in Hegel’s Philosophy | ETHICS IN PROGRESS In Hegel’s philosophy, the dialectic of life is based on the expedient course of the concept. This contribution sets itself the task of conducting a hermeneutical and historical-critical reconstruction of the foundation of Hegel’s speculative-dialectical method. The aim is to reveal the philosop...