PHIL 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Divine Law, Pathos
11 Jan 2017
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The ethical order exists as something merely given (#354) self-evident, transparent, not questioned, taken for granted, something innate. The world is not something merely outside of us to be known; it"s something we live in. Standpoint of spirit = action: but we must act on principles that don"t arise from ourselves. Nothing was given with relation to desire no laws controlling self-consciousness. The world is a being for another by proving this, you affirm your own sense of being for itself. Laws of the ethical world have no meaning unless they pertain to my actions as an individual. In conflict: example, antigone wants to bury her brother but the state forbids it so she"s a member of state and family but does what is owed to her family and appears other to the state. Her action is located in this conflict.
