Moral philosophy as an object of Hegel’s debate with Kant in <i>The Phenomenology of Spirit</i>

The history of Hegel’s critical controversy with Kant’s moral philosophy starts the Frankfurt period his work, when Hegel first opposed what he believed to be absolutisation concept duty and neglect social content morality. Although more than once addressed philosophy, it is only in “Phenomenology Spirit” that formulated a systemic radical criticism. basis argumentation an attempt reveal main contradiction ethics by showing fulfilment unconditional requirements leads complete elimination morality itself. By uncovering internal contradictions duty, demonstrates certain kind pragmatism interpretation offers instead religious faith transcendental power “communal” consciousness, which will become principle supposedly removes all worldview. These debates between two most prominent classics German idealism on issue whether demands are universal nature or always socially determined, has not lost its significance even today. This because they present substantially different ethical doctrines: one affirms idea autonomy consciousness formal character, while other assumes can legitimate under specific socio-historical conditions.