Libertad y contradicción en el mundo ético

Abstract

In this paper it will be discussed the status of Hegel’s theory of objektiver Geist and his idea of freedom taking up a variant of the confrontation between Kant and Hegel. By showing that contradiction in morality cannot be avoided, Hegel decentralizes the role that strictly moral concerns (should) have in our practical life thereby complicating and extending the realm of what counts as free action. Thus, it must be clear that the strength of the doctrine of objektiver Geist and of the notion of freedom developed therein consists in leading “outside” morality understood in the Kantian way, in showing precisely what it is that lies “outside” morality.