Abstract

CHARPENEL, Eduardo. Virtue or Duty? Hegelian Considerations on an Apparent Disjunction. Rev. filos.open insight [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.20, pp.53-78.  Epub May 02, 2023. ISSN 2395-8936.  https://doi.org/10.23924/oi.v10n20a2019.pp%25p.373.

This article explores Hegel’s discussion and appropriation of Aristotle and Kant within his Outlines of the Philosophy of Right. In the interpretation I want to put forward, I claim that Hegel has relevant and systematic reasons to argue for a point of view in which neither virtue nor duty have, as ethical categories, the upper hand in practical philosophy. By doing this, I intend to show that Hegel provides us with important elements to think that virtue and deontological ethics do not have to be necessarily conceived as if they were antagonistically opposed to each other.

Keywords : Aristotle; Hegel; Kant; Normative Ethics; Practical Philosophy.