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Autonomie und Freiheit

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In this paper, I discuss two main features of Hegel's concept of freedom. Firstly, freedom is an idea. As an idea, freedom transcends necessarily every given institutional order for it incorporates a dimension of autonomy, i.e. the free consent of the individuals, who live in these institutions. I argue that self-determination is even the core of the abstract philosophical definition of freedom. Yet, only a reflection on the moments of freedom already incorporated in existing institutional orders is the very source of the idea itself. This entails that-secondly-freedom is essentially an idea that needs realisation. The abstract core of self-determination receives a concrete form by existing institutions and critiques who judge the institutional reality either by its contrast to the immanent self-understanding of the institutions or by their (in-)ability to realise the idea of freedom. It is the interplay of the abstract idea and its historical realisation that allows-according to Hegel-to realise freedom in a process of self-determination. Subject of such a process are autonomous agents who try to reconcile their individual perspectives with the social totality. On the side of the realisation, this reconciliation is the main feature of freedom. I conclude that Hegel's idea of freedom is primarily political. It opens a common search for freedom oriented institutional arrangements and keeps this search open ended by the non-institutionalised critiques that legitimise themselves by reference to the idea of freedom itself.

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halshs-00924035, version 1 (06-01-2014)

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Christian Schmidt. Autonomie und Freiheit: Politische Aspekte des Selbstbewusstseins bei Hegel. Hegel-Studien, 2014, 47 (2013), pp.19. ⟨halshs-00924035⟩

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