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- Jun 29, 2018Bruce,This is a fine point. Morality is indeed invisible to the Law, until it turns into Behavior which clashes with the Law.Thus, the Law is concerned only with the Law, and not with Morality.Yet for the Individual, life is lived as Morality -- we do what we maintain is Right.In this sense, there is a direct link between Moral Behavior and the Law.The question for Aristotle (and also for Virtue Ethics) is about the role of the so-called Virtues and Vices.I will name them here, for clarity:Virtues: Courage, Moderation, Generosity; Presentable, Self-esteem; Proper Ambition; Modesty; Wit; Friendliness,Vices: Coward/Foolhardy, Spendthrift/Stingy, Overdressed/Underdressed, Vanity/False humility, Pushy/Lazy, Obsequious/Surly, Boasting/Self-deprecating, Buffon/Boor, Obnoxious/WallflowerI tend to agree that the Law does not care about these at all -- unless some line is crossed in keeping the General Peace.The value of the Aristotelian Virtues is not for the Law, then, but for the Individual and his or her immediate society. Hegel does not seem to deal with these directly. His attitude toward the Aristotelian Virtues, as I showed in his HOP (1830) is that the Virtues are the syntheses between the thesis/antithesis of the Vices.All best,--Paul
From: "Bruce Merrill merrillbp@... [hegel]" <hegel@yahoogroups.com>
To: hegel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [hegel] Hegel and Virtue Ethics
I don't have my copy of PR at hand, I'm on the road, but I take it
that the point that Hegel is making here in the quote that Paul
provides is that when morality has elevated our dispositions, our
character, and we are compassionate, this in an internal matter.
Whereas law is concerned with disciplining our external actions,and
does not pertain to our interior disposition. We are punished for
killing someone, not for out wish to kill him, that we do not act
upon.
"Virtue is the ethical order reflected in
the individual character insofar as that
character is determined by its natural
endowment.. When Virtue displays itself
solely as the individual's simple conformity
with the duties of the station to which he
belongs, that is Right." - << Previous post in topic Next post in topic >>