ABSTRACT
Thus, Hegel, in his discussion of what he calls the ethical life, seeks to demonstrate the precise content of the modes of conduct and requires obligations that individuals are to uphold. His chief concern is to argue not only that individuals have an obligation to respect the rights of others but that, in addition, there must be institutions in place that describe the nature of the conduct that individuals must uphold in order to meet this objective. For Hegel, then, each person possesses a “capacity for rights,” and it is the obligation of each person to respect these rights and thus to live by the imperative that says we are to “be a person and respect others as persons.”2
