Abstract

GIUSTI, MIGUEL. (AUTONOMY AND RECOGNITION). Ideas y Valores [online]. 2007, vol.56, n.133, pp.39-56. ISSN 0120-0062.

Abstract: This essay is divided in two main parts. The first one will be a short description of the deficiencies found in moral reflection which seem to lead the discussion towards the concept of recognition. Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, who are one of the main characters in these debates, give very good reasons to turn the argument towards the subject of recognition, but they do not seem to agree either in its definition, or in the right way to recover the Hegelian thesis, nor even in the way to approach the relationship between autonomy and recognition. The second part will introduce, therefore, the proper Hegelian concept, with the intention of emphasizing the essential link -not the rupture- between the notion of recognition and the conceptual model of free will or spirit.

Keywords : Hegel; Charles Taylor; Axel Honneth; recognition; morality.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )