Law provides for Hegel the cornerstone of the modern state. 0000005409 00000 n
"[5], Learn how and when to remove this template message, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Redding, Paul, "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elements_of_the_Philosophy_of_Right&oldid=961984990, Articles needing additional references from September 2009, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 June 2020, at 13:10. Most notably the phrase that is contained in the addition to §258, which was initially translated as "The state is the march of God through the world" as well as being translated thus: "The existence of the state is the presence of God upon the earth". Hegel also argues that the state itself is subsumed under the higher totality of world history, in which individual states arise, conflict with each other, and eventually fall. 0000006558 00000 n
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The absence of law characterized for Hegel despotism, whether monarchist or ochlocracist (§278). 0000006408 00000 n
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Hegel scholars have suggested that the inclusion of these passages was done to satisfy the censors. Preface and Introduction with certain changes in terminology: from “Philosophy of Right”, by G W F Hegel 1820, Translated. 0000022392 00000 n
The course of history is apparently toward the ever-increasing actualization of freedom; each successive historical epoch corrects certain failures of the earlier ones. 0000008659 00000 n
the Philosophy of Right, or indeed Hegel’s wider writings. 0000003765 00000 n
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Hegel’s Political Philosophy Thom Brooks Forthcoming in Michael Bauer (ed. Included in this is a suggestion that it is justifiable for the state to censor the writings of philosophers like Fries and welcoming Fries' loss of his academic position following Fries' participation in the Wartburg Festival. 0000008047 00000 n
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As such, he criticized Karl Ludwig von Haller's The Restoration of the Science of the State, in which the latter claimed that law was superficial, because natural law and the "right of the most powerful" was sufficient (§258). 0000024190 00000 n
Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different … [3] T.M. This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. This book contains broad discussions of such topics as persons and rights, property, punishment, moral psychology, civil society, freedom and war. 0000010231 00000 n
He deems this insufficient and moves onto the second sphere, morality (Moralität). From these early translations came the criticism that Hegel justifies authoritarian or even totalitarian forms of government: Giovanni Gentile, whose thought had a strong influence on Mussolini, bases his Hegelian revival on this point. 0000004068 00000 n
However, Walter Kaufmann argues that the correct translation reads as follows: "It is the way of God in the world, that there should be a state". 0000007635 00000 n
Under this, Hegel proposes that humans reflect their own subjectivity of others in order to respect them. 0000009130 00000 n
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The third sphere, ethical life (Sittlichkeit), is Hegel's integration of individual subjective feelings and universal notions of right. 0000007911 00000 n
The Philosophy of Right (as it is usually called) begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can only realize itself in the complicated social context of property rights and relations, contracts, moral commitments, family life, the economy, the legal system, and the polity. 0000006103 00000 n
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Kaufmann claims that Hegel's original meaning of the sentence is not a carte blanche for state dominance and brutality but merely a reference to the state's importance as part of the process of history. The inclusion of this passage has led to scholarly debate as to the reason for Hegel's advocacy of the kind of censorship the Prussian state had introduced following the murder of August von Kotzebue in the form of the Carlsbad Decrees. The following exposition [a full-scale critical study of Hegel's Philosophy of Right was supposed to follow this introduction] — a contribution to this undertaking — concerns itself not directly with the original but with a copy, with the German philosophy of the state and of law. There were a number of issues that arose during the translation of the text. At the end of his Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Hegel leaves open the possibility that history has yet to accomplish certain tasks related to the inner organization of the state. %PDF-1.2
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), G. W. F. Hegel: Key Concepts.Durham: Acumen, 2014. Elements of the Philosophy of Right (German: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts) is a work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published in 1820,[1] though the book's original title page dates it to 1821. 0000006983 00000 n
Hence, Dr. Grans is not wrong in stating that this work is an essential part of Hegel’s philosophy, and adding that with the entire system it must stand or fall. [4] Stephen Houlgate writes that Hegel's work is now recognized as "one of the greatest works of social and political philosophy ever written. 0000007116 00000 n
Under ethical life, Hegel then launches into a lengthy discussion about family, civil society, and the state. 0000008312 00000 n
Eather, correcting the dramatic tone of the remark, he says in … Karl Marx, “Introduction” to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 1 of 7 INTRODUCTION TO A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT Karl Marx (1843) From McLellan: “[This manuscript] was written when Marx’s ideas were in a transient state: he had adopted the fundamental 0000008431 00000 n
Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. [2] This suggests that the state, rather than being godly, is part of the divine strategy, not a mere product of human endeavor. 0000004690 00000 n
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Knox argued that, while clearly designed to curry favour with the censors and written well after completion of the work proper, the Preface's condemnation of Fries was "nothing new", that there was no betrayal of his support for the Wartburg Festival principles, rather a mere denunciation of method, while condemnation of Karl Ludwig von Haller (whose work had been burned at Wartburg) remained undisturbed in the body of the work.