Subjectivity, civil society and the possibility of an ethic for

The present research concludes that the concepts of estate and corporation (and as a whole, the conception of social life as Bildung), far from expressing an imposition of ancient institutions on modern civil society, expose the value for modern times of the ethics that Hegel develops throughout the Philosophy of Right. The need for subjectivity to be conceived as universal reason overcoming its identification with social collectives is found in the impossibility of corporations to face by themselves the contingencies produced by their own deployment in civil society. In this way, this research concludes that it is as a collective social organization, but still finite by itself, that the social agent discovers the need to conceive itself as a reason for the social whole. This is, finally, what this research underlines as the crux of the value of Hegel's institutionalist ethics for contemporary times: that the effort of conceiving and making oneself universal is not carried out by subjectivity as a mere particular individual but as organized collectivities, articulated among themselves.

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Fabrizio Arenas Barchi hat einen Master-Abschluss in Philosophie von der PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ.