Modern Freedom

Hegel¿s Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy
2001
ISBN: 978-0-7923-7040-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 675 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1212 g

Reihe: Studies in German Idealism

'0 ~{oc; ~paxuc;, ~ O£ 't£XVll ~a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, almost forty years ago, I did not forsee that its completion would take such a long time, although I was well aware that some of Hegel's texts stubbornly resist a thorough deciphering of their meaning and argumenta­ tion. Having written a dissertation on the young Hegel's moral, political, and religious philosophy (Lejeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde, 1960'), I was asked to teach ethics, social philosophy, and philosophy of law at various universities of The Netherlands. While studying and teaching the classics of ethics and politics, I began to focus on the textbook that Hegel had written for his courses on practical philosophy: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820). The first result of my research was a study of the historical and philosophical context of this text (Philosophy and Politics: A Commentary on the Preface to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, 1981/1987), but the interpretation of its content proceeded slowly. While con­ ferences and colloquia occasioned fragments whose traces can be found in the following pages, the ramifications of Hegel's thought and the overwhelming amount of secondary literature demanded a great deal of time and attention and other interests continued to interrupt the project.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peperzak, Adriaan T

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Abbreviations.- Metaphysics?.- Philosophy and Historical Reconstruction.- Purpose.- Systematic Connections.- Student Notes.- Genetic Connections.- Sources.- Texts and Translations.- Exegesis.- Commentary.- Obscurities.- Reconstruction.- The Place of the Rechtsphilosophie.- The Historical Context.- Plan.- A Selection of Studies.- I. LOGIC.- Truth.- Reason (Vernunft) and Intellect (Verstand) (Enc A 1–3).- Aristotle on Thought.- The Identity of Thought and Being.- Onto-theo-logy.- Hegel’s Logic and Its Role in His Philosophy of Right.- Comprehension.- Deduction.- Self-Determination.- Concept-Judgment-Syllogism.- Finitude and Infinity.- Sollen.- Hegel’s Pantheism.- From Substance to Subject.- The Logic of the Grundlinien.- Plan and Procedure.- II. SPIRIT.- The Context of Right (Grl 1–2 and 4).- Spirit (Enc A 299–399).- Schema of the Encyclopedia.- The Abstract Concept of Spirit (Enc A 299–305).- Philosophy of Spirit (Enc A 305–307).- Phenomenology and Philosophy of Spirit (Enc A 329–362).- Consciousness (Enc A 329–334).- How Consciousness Becomes Rational (Enc A 335–363).- Interpretation of Enc A 345–362.- Spirit (Enc A 363).- The Concept of Spirit (Enc A 363–366).- The Identity of Intelligence and Will (Enc A 366–388).- III. FROM FREE WILL TO RIGHT.- The Subject Matter of the Philosophy of Right (§§ 1–2).- Natural and Positive Right (§ 3).- Spirit-Will-Right (§ 4).- The Deduction of Right in Grl 1–33 and Enc A 388–401.- The Will as Practical Reason (Enc A 386–387).- The Deduction in Grl 1–32.- Résumé (Grl 5–30).- A Schematic Overview (Grl 1–33).- Right (Grl 29–30).- Method (Grl 31–32).- Division (Grl 33).- IV. PERSON AND PROPERTY.- Immediate Right (§§ 34–39).- Sollen (§ 36).- The Foundation of Abstract Right(§ 36).- The Differentiation of Immediate Right (§ 40).- Property (§§ 41–70).- Intermezzo.- Life, Body, Property (§§ 47–48).- The Genesis of Property (§§ 49–52).- Personality and Interpersonality (§§ 49R and 51).- Rethinking Private Law (§§ 53 ff.).- Singularity or Mutuality?.- Discussion.- Appropriation (§§ 54–64).- Slavery (§§ 35R, 57R, and 66R).- V. CONTRACT AND CRIME.- Contract (§§ 71–81).- Crime and Punishment (§§ 82–103).- The Fragility of (Abstract) Right (§ 81).- VI. MORALITY.- Morality in Enc (1817) §§ 415–429.- Morality in the Grundlinien §§ 103–140.- VII. SITTLICHKEIT.- The Concept of Sittlichkeit (§ 142).- The Structure of §§ 142–156.- Analysis.- Consequences for Moral Behavior and Ethics.- Hegel’s Concrete Ethics.- VIII. THE FAMILY.- Love (§§ 158–168).- Unity and Dispersion (§§ 169–172 and 178–181).- Education (§§ 173–177).- IX. SOCIETY.- Civil Society According to the Encyclopedia (BC 518–538).- X. THE STATE.- The State and “The State” (§§ 257–260).- The State Is Not a Contract: Part One (§§ 258R and 75).- Philosophy and History (§§ 258R and M-32).- The State Is Not a Contract: Part Two (§ 258R).- Against Historicism (§ 258R and note).- State-Family-Civil Society (§§ 261–265).- Constitution and Political Disposition (§§ 266–270).- Politics and Religion (§ 270R).- Discussion About Constitutional Law (§§ 271 ff.).- Constitution (§§ 271–273).- The People (§ 274).- The Constitutional Monarchy (§§ 265–267; 272–274).- The Rational Organization of the State (§§ 260–274).- The State Is a Monarchy (§§ 275–286).- Hereditary Monarchy (§§ 280–281).- Universality and Particularity of the Monarch (§§ 283–286).- The Monarch According to the Course of1817–18.- The Government (Regierungsgewalt, §§ 287–297).- The Legislative Power (§§ 298–314).- The Democratic Element (§§ 301–303).- The Political Function of the Stände (§§ 303–314).- Actuality and Reform.- Public Opinion (§§ 315–319).- Freedom of the Press (§ 319).- The State is a Conclusion of Conclusions.- The Sovereign Nation State (§§ 320–329).- XI. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS.- The International Order (§§ 330–333).- War (§§ 334–339).- Humanity and the Nations (§§ 336–337).- Wartime Law (§§ 338–339).- Transition to World History (§ 340).- XII. WORLD HISTORY.- Weltgeschichte (§§ 341–342).- History and Wisdom (§ 343).- The Nations (§§ 344–351).- World-Historical Individuals (§ 348).- Nation-States and Other Peoples (§§ 349–351).- Four Realms (§§ 352–360).- XIII. ETHICS AND RELIGION.- The State Knows What It Wills (§§ 257–270).- Religion (Enc A 453–471).- Religion and State (Grl 270R).- The Principle of Protestantism (Preface, §270R).- National State and Universal Religion.- Freedom of Religion? (§ 270R).- EPILOGUE.- The Nation State.- Individuals.- In tersubjectivity.- Nationalism and Humanity.- Right and Love.- Perfection and Imperfection.- Spirit as Self-Appropriation.- Tasks.