PHIL 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Divine Law
11 Jan 2017
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When we enter domain of spirit, no longer focused simply on self-consciousness. What we"ve realized is a way/mode of being in the world spirit is that mode of existence that is its world. The world that spirit is is a living ethical world contains organic being, and the terms by which it exists is through other people. Spirit is the ethical life of a nation: spirit is realization of mutual recognition of life. Master slave relation was failure of mutual recognition. Different forms of spiritual life include ethical family, state not just aggregates. Spirit is not just dead essence so community not just an aggregate of individuals. First claim: action divides spirit: the distinctions come from the nature of spirit, and the differences in individuals, ethical life is predicated on a world which acts, action divides spirit into the substance and individualized reality, substance: These are essential components of ethical action mutually necessary: more than individual, physical properties.
