In our moment when shared ethical languages seem impossible and where associational life is in decline, this reading and discussion group aims to investigate several related questions: What conditions do ethics require? Is it possible to create a shared ethical world that is neither oppressively exclusive nor so capacious as to be meaningless? Is ethics even a useful register through which to discern "a good life" or are they dependent upon other social/material questions?  For this session, we'll discuss "Abstract Right" and "Morality" from Hegel's Philosophy of Right. No pressure to do the entire reading, and no need to have attended the previous session in order to join this one!