WENNING, MARIO
No
Front. Philos. China
Article
Científica
0.111
01/01/2018
2-s2.0-85060720184
This paper interprets Hegel\'s engagement with tragedy and especially tragic action as an interpretive model for understanding ethical life in complex societies in which independent value spheres collide. Tragic recognition, in contrast to the kind of recognition introduced in the master and slave dialectic, is not based on desire, but arises from the suffering deriving from clashing value spheres. As a coming to terms with one\'s finitude, tragic recognition presents an important corrective to the account of mutual recognition that has been the reference point of contemporary interpretations of Hegel\'s social and political philosophy. The paper concludes by pointing to some of the limits of tragedy as a universal interpretive framework for modern societies. © 2018 Copyright 2018 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
death; ethical life; Hegel; recognition; tragedy