THE “Rechtsphilosophie” was the last of the works published by Hegel in his lifetime. Originally it consisted of the rigorous, consecutively demonstrated, chain of numbered paragraphs, which ...

For the answer, in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel gives a practical tutorial in dialectics—first offering two common but wrong answers, then the right one.

At any rate, with Hegel philosophy comes to an end; on the one hand, because in his system he summed up its whole development in the most splendid fashion; and on the other hand, because, even though ...

G eorg Hegel (1770–1831) occupies a rather strange position in the history of philosophical thought: he is both extremely influential and almost impossible for a non-specialist to understand ...

In his main political work, The Philosophy of Right (1821), Hegel defended the principle of Jewish emancipation against prejudices that were popular among students and university “progressives”. He ...

THIS volume contains certain lectures on the Philosophy of Law, delivered to the Juridical Society of Edinburgh in November 1871, together with a discussion of Hegel's opinions concerning ...

His books include Dignity, On Voluntary Servitude, and Hegel’s Dialectic and Its Criticism. He writes regularly for major American and European periodicals. Simon Glendinning is Professor in European ...

Hegel was the culminating figure of a philosophical tradition known as German Idealism. To Berlin this tradition—allied with Romanticism—melted the individual into collectives such as nation ...

A later advance in human consciousness, the 18th-century Enlightenment, was too remote from material reality to win Hegel’s wholehearted acclaim. Philosophy, in his view, is nothing if it is not ...