sittlichkeit

Translated as ‘ethical life’ from the writings of Hegel. It refers to the ethical norms which arise from the interaction of a person's own subjective values and those objective values present in the institutions of society. When these values coincide man, according to Hegel, is free.

— Ian Fraser

(Germany, morality, ethical life) In Hegel, a way of being in the world: an involvement in the ethical and political life of the time.