Historia y Eticidad en la Antígona de Hegel
Abstract
This essay explains the role of history and ethical life (Sittlichkeit) in the first section of the chapter entitled Spirit in the Phenomenology of Spirit, in which Hegel interprets the meaning of Sophocles' Antigone as the best expression of the ancient Greeks ethical life in its preliminary and most immediate state. It is argued, first, that Hegels understanding of the ethical life was developed as an alternative, based on history, to Kants notion of morals (Sitten) and, second, that Hegel considered the ancient Greek mode of living limited by its immediacy and, therefore, never hoped to revive it during his own time.