The Philosophy of Right

…der Philosophie des Rechts (1821; The Philosophy of Right). In Hegel’s works on politics and history, the human mind objectifies itself in its endeavour to find an object identical with itself. The Philosophy of Right (or The Philosophy of Law) falls into three main divisions. The first is concerned with…

In The Philosophy of Right (1821), Hegel described how this synthesis could be achieved in an organic community. The key to his solution is the recognition that human nature is not fixed but is shaped by the society in which one lives. The organic community would…

…und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse (1821; The Philosophy of Right). This book was reviewed by Herbart, who reprimanded Hegel for mixing the monism of the rationalist Benedict de Spinoza with the transcendentalism of Immanuel Kant, which had explored the conditions of the possibility of knowledge in general. There were also certain…

In his Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1821; Philosophy of Right), Hegel asserted that the real is rational and the rational is real. This infamous copula is, however, ambiguous: Does it refer to an accomplished fact or rather identify a tendency, still incomplete? To what extent, that…