The Ethics of Democracy: A Contemporary Reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Demonstrates how the ethical underpinning of Hegel's political and social philosophy has relevance for contemporary democratic life.

The legal regulations and formal rules of democracy alone are not enough to hold a society together and govern its processes. Yet the irreducible ethical pluralism that characterizes contemporary society seems to make it impossible to impose a single system of values as a source of social cohesion and identity reference. In this book, Lucio Cortella argues that...