希普與霍耐特的承認理論將黑格爾耶拿早期的不法理論解釋為個體與共同體的和解的方案。實際上，耶拿早期的和解方案並不成功，因為它最終導致了個體喪失個別性的「倫理的悲劇」。黑格爾批評形式主義自然法導致倫理有機體分裂，是「自然的不法」。因此，他沒有從主觀道德方面去探尋和解的可能性。《倫理的體系》希望不法的威懾作用能促成個體與共同體的統一。這種既排除主觀自由，又保留主觀自由的做法面臨巨大的困難。失敗的原因在於直觀與概念相互歸屬的方法不完善、不法理論的結構缺失，以及沒找到道德與市民社會這兩個和解的中介。

The theory of recognition interprets Hegel’s theory of wrongdoing in the early Jena as a solution to the reconciliation between individual and community. In fact, this program of reconciliation is unsuccessful because it eventually leads to the loss of individuality in “the Tragedy of ethical life”. Hegel criticizes that the formalism of natural law splits the ethical organism and it is the “natural unlawfulness”. Therefore, he doesn’t seek the possibility of reconciliation from the subjective moral aspect. “The System of Ethical Life” hopes that the deterrence of unlawfulness can promote the unity of individuals and communities. Excluding subjective freedom and retaining subjective freedom at the same time, this program faces enormous difficulties. Reasons for the failure are the imperfection of subsumption of intuition under the concept, the lack of structure of theory of wrongdoing and the failure to find morality and civil society as two stages.