| The old polarity between hyper-liberalism and hyper-collectivism is in fact still very much alive until now. This article seeks to do justice to both poles by utilizing Hegel's "Philosophy of Mind". The concept of 'world-conciousness' is elaborated as Absolute Reason in which individual and society are united without losing themselves, without letting one be swallowed ny the other. The ethical life developed by Hegel is a process in which individual comes to find her/himself through the dialectic between subjective and objective good. Society is viewed as an organism by which individual finds her/his dignity as a person. |