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The relevance of personality, slavery, and property to the question whether Hegel seeks to justify colonial oppression
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James, David (2023) The relevance of personality, slavery, and property to the question whether Hegel seeks to justify colonial oppression. The Review of Metaphysics, 76 (4). pp. 587-610. doi:10.1353/rvm.2023.a899475 ISSN 0034-6632 .
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Abstract
The author examines the connection between claims concerning modern slavery encountered in Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of world history and relevant concepts and themes drawn from his theory of abstract right, as presented in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right. He reconstructs Hegel's argument for the claim that slavery in the modern world is an injustice in a way that directly relates this argument to his theory of property. He shows that this argument, insofar as it involves the claim that both private property and contract are necessary conditions of the consciousness of oneself as free, may nevertheless form the basis of a paternalistic argument that seeks to justify colonial oppression in terms of how it serves as a means of increasing the consciousness of freedom. Equally, however, he argues that Hegel's theory of abstract right does not support such a position.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Review of Metaphysics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Philosophy Education Society, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0034-6632 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 76 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 587-610 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/rvm.2023.a899475 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 May 2023 | ||||||||
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