Name: philosophy of right
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Author: G. W. F. Hegel
ISBN: 9780486445632

Type

Physical Book

Author

G. W. F. Hegel

Publisher

Dover Publications

Language

English

Pages

219

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0486445631

ISBN13

9780486445632

Synopsis "philosophy of right"

Complete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher's influential system. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel applies his most important concept -- the dialectics -- to law, rights, morality, the family, economics, and the state. The last of Hegel's works to be published in his lifetime, this volume combines moral and political philosophy to form a sociologic view dominated by the idea of the state. Hegel defines universal right as the synthesis between the thesis of an individual acting in accordance with the law and the occasional conflict of an antithetical desire to follow private convictions. The state, he declares, must permit individuals to satisfy both demands, thereby realizing social harmony and prosperity--the perfect synthesis. Further, Hegel renounces his formerly favorable assessment of the French Revolution and rejects the republican form of government, suggesting instead an idealized form of a constitutional monarchy, in which ultimate power rests with the sovereign.

G. W. F. Hegel

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher, one of the most influential figures of German idealism. He studied at the Tübinger Stift alongside Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich Schelling, developing a philosophical system based on dialectics, where the unfolding of history and reality are explained through contradiction and its resolution. He was a professor at the University of Jena and later at the University of Berlin, where his thought gained great influence.

Among his most notable works are Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Science of Logic (1812-1816), and Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817). He also published Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837) and Lectures on the History of Philosophy (1833-1836, compiled posthumously). His philosophy has been fundamental in multiple currents of modern thought, including Marxism and existentialism.

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