Author	Peperzak, Adriaan T. author
Title	Modern Freedom [electronic resource] : Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy / by Adriaan T. Peperzak
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0856-3
Descript	XXVI, 675 p. online resource

'0 ̃{oc; ̃paxuc;, ̃ Oยฃ 'tยฃXVll ã1(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 argumentaยญ 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 conยญ 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

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 1โ3) -- 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 1โ2 and 4) -- Spirit (Enc A 299โ399) -- Schema of the Encyclopedia -- The Abstract Concept of Spirit (Enc A 299โ305) -- Philosophy of Spirit (Enc A 305โ307) -- Phenomenology and Philosophy of Spirit (Enc A 329โ362) -- Consciousness (Enc A 329โ334) -- How Consciousness Becomes Rational (Enc A 335โ363) -- Interpretation of Enc A 345โ362 -- Spirit (Enc A 363) -- The Concept of Spirit (Enc A 363โ366) -- The Identity of Intelligence and Will (Enc A 366โ388) -- III. FROM FREE WILL TO RIGHT -- The Subject Matter of the Philosophy of Right (ยงยง 1โ2) -- Natural and Positive Right (ยง 3) -- Spirit-Will-Right (ยง 4) -- The Deduction of Right in Grl 1โ33 and Enc A 388โ401 -- The Will as Practical Reason (Enc A 386โ387) -- The Deduction in Grl 1โ32 -- Rรฉsumรฉ (Grl 5โ30) -- A Schematic Overview (Grl 1โ33) -- Right (Grl 29โ30) -- Method (Grl 31โ32) -- Division (Grl 33) -- IV. PERSON AND PROPERTY -- Immediate Right (ยงยง 34โ39) -- Sollen (ยง 36) -- The Foundation of Abstract Right (ยง 36) -- The Differentiation of Immediate Right (ยง 40) -- Property (ยงยง 41โ70) -- Intermezzo -- Life, Body, Property (ยงยง 47โ48) -- The Genesis of Property (ยงยง 49โ52) -- Personality and Interpersonality (ยงยง 49R and 51) -- Rethinking Private Law (ยงยง 53 ff.) -- Singularity or Mutuality? -- Discussion -- Appropriation (ยงยง 54โ64) -- Slavery (ยงยง 35R, 57R, and 66R) -- V. CONTRACT AND CRIME -- Contract (ยงยง 71โ81) -- Crime and Punishment (ยงยง 82โ103) -- The Fragility of (Abstract) Right (ยง 81) -- VI. MORALITY -- Morality in Enc (1817) ยงยง 415โ429 -- Morality in the Grundlinien ยงยง 103โ140 -- VII. SITTLICHKEIT -- The Concept of Sittlichkeit (ยง 142) -- The Structure of ยงยง 142โ156 -- Analysis -- Consequences for Moral Behavior and Ethics -- Hegel's Concrete Ethics -- VIII. THE FAMILY -- Love (ยงยง 158โ168) -- Unity and Dispersion (ยงยง 169โ172 and 178โ181) -- Education (ยงยง 173โ177) -- IX. SOCIETY -- Civil Society According to the Encyclopedia (BC 518โ538) -- X. THE STATE -- The State and โThe Stateโ (ยงยง 257โ260) -- The State Is Not a Contract: Part One (ยงยง 258R and 75) -- Philosophy and History (ยงยง 258R and M-32) -- The State Is Not a Contract: Part Two (ยง 258R) -- Against Historicism (ยง 258R and note) -- State-Family-Civil Society (ยงยง 261โ265) -- Constitution and Political Disposition (ยงยง 266โ270) -- Politics and Religion (ยง 270R) -- Discussion About Constitutional Law (ยงยง 271 ff.) -- Constitution (ยงยง 271โ273) -- The People (ยง 274) -- The Constitutional Monarchy (ยงยง 265โ267; 272โ274) -- The Rational Organization of the State (ยงยง 260โ274) -- The State Is a Monarchy (ยงยง 275โ286) -- Hereditary Monarchy (ยงยง 280โ281) -- Universality and Particularity of the Monarch (ยงยง 283โ286) -- The Monarch According to the Course of 1817โ18 -- The Government (Regierungsgewalt, ยงยง 287โ297) -- The Legislative Power (ยงยง 298โ314) -- The Democratic Element (ยงยง 301โ303) -- The Political Function of the Stรคnde (ยงยง 303โ314) -- Actuality and Reform -- Public Opinion (ยงยง 315โ319) -- Freedom of the Press (ยง 319) -- The State is a Conclusion of Conclusions -- The Sovereign Nation State (ยงยง 320โ329) -- XI. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- The International Order (ยงยง 330โ333) -- War (ยงยง 334โ339) -- Humanity and the Nations (ยงยง 336โ337) -- Wartime Law (ยงยง 338โ339) -- Transition to World History (ยง 340) -- XII. WORLD HISTORY -- Weltgeschichte (ยงยง 341โ342) -- History and Wisdom (ยง 343) -- The Nations (ยงยง 344โ351) -- World-Historical Individuals (ยง 348) -- Nation-States and Other Peoples (ยงยง 349โ351) -- Four Realms (ยงยง 352โ360) -- XIII. ETHICS AND RELIGION -- The State Knows What It Wills (ยงยง 257โ270) -- Religion (Enc A 453โ471) -- Religion and State (Grl 270R) -- The Principle of Protestantism (Preface, ยง270R) -- National State and Universal Religion -- Freedom of Religion? (ยง 270R) -- EPILOGUE -- The Nation State -- Individuals -- In tersubjectivity -- Nationalism and Humanity -- Right and Love -- Perfection and Imperfection -- Spirit as Self-Appropriation -- Tasks

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