Valtio – On Conceptual History of the Finnish ‘State’
Author(s) -
Tuija Pulkkinen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
redescriptions political thought conceptual history and feminist theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-0914
pISSN - 2308-0906
DOI - 10.7227/r.4.1.8
Subject(s) - politics , conceptual history , rhetoric , epistemology , sociology , contingency , rhetorical question , agency (philosophy) , political philosophy , focus (optics) , conceptual framework , state (computer science) , social science , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , physics , optics , algorithm
law and personal morality, transforming them into a view of social life with a special emphasis on the element of traditions carried over from former generations in the form of habits and customs. SittlichkeiUsedlighet, in other words, joins formal law and inner morality as aspects of social life, and adds to it the ideal of a social change which respects the "inner" development of communal feelings of right and wrong. The state in both Hegel's and Snellman's system is Sittlichkeit!sedlighet in its purest form. Snellman's emphasis when considering sedlighet, and consequently 'the state', is slightly different from Hegel's. In order to understand
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