Titel:	Law as the Public Conscience
Beginn:	01.11.2012 19:30
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Beschreibung:	Dean Moyar considers how G.W.F. Hegel both agrees with and diverges from the conceptions of law and conscience that Thomas Hobbes presents in The Leviathan. The central question, of course, concerns the relationship between individual belief (in conscience) and public action (under the law). Many scholars hold that Hegel endorses the view that the positive laws simply take the place of the individual conscience in public action, but this is a serious misconception. Rather than the laws taking the place of the individual’s conscience by imposing the impersonal universal on everyone alike, the move in Hegel is rather to think of the laws as acting or functioning as conscience in the sense that they exemplify the important characteristics for which we value individual conscience. Moyar argues that Hegel in effect turns the Hobbesian picture on its head and thereby gives us a superior model for how the liberal legal order should be theorized. Moderated by Christoph Menke, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. http://www.americanacademy.de/home/program/upcoming/law-public-conscience#
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