Concept

Sittlichkeit

Overview

Sittlichkeit (German: [ˈzɪtlɪçkaɪt] ) is the concept of "ethical life" or "ethical order" furthered by German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. It was first presented in his work Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) to refer to "ethical behavior grounded in custom and tradition and developed through habit and imitation in accordance with the objective laws of the community" and it was further developed in his work Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820).

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Philosophers who discussed Sittlichkeit

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Socrates

Related ideas

• Roger Scruton
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Isaiah Berlin
• Tradition
• Wilhelm Weitling
• The Phenomenology of Spirit
• Conservatism
• Classical liberalism

Place in the tradition

Part of Socrates.

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