The Philosophical Review/Volume 1/Summary: Sterrett - The Ethics of Hegel
There is an obvious continuity between the diverse ethics of Kant and Hegel. Both start from man, but Kant considers the subjective ego, Hegel the objective ego. Both seek to obey the command, "Know thyself," but the self was different to the two. To find it Kant looked inward and Hegel outward. The difference between them is thus the difference between an abstract self and a concrete self. Hegel avoids all abstract conceptions. True, he starts from them, but only in order to criticise and pass beyond them to a real concrete. To him there can be no duty without an objective good and hence Kant's formal law is valueless. After this introduction the remainder of the article (pp. 180-201) is a brief exposition of Hegel's ethics, based mainly on the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts