Date of Award
Summer 8-7-2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Sebastian Rand
Second Advisor
Andrew Altman
Third Advisor
William Edmundson
Abstract
Market structures have come to dominate every area of our society, and market logic—in the form of rational choice theory, the law and economics movement, and the like—has equally dominated our thinking about society. In this thesis, I will examine one critique of this state of affairs: that offered by G.W.F. Hegel. I compare Hegel’s critique of the market to the similar critique of modern communitarians like Charles Taylor and Michael Sandel, and argue that Hegel’s distinctive conception of freedom allows him to capture what is right about the modern communitarian view while avoiding most of the common criticisms.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/12141230
Recommended Citation
Schrepfer, Matthew, "Hegelian Freedom and the Communitarian Critique of the Market." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2018.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/12141230