Hegel’s Social Philosophy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23141011
AutoresFrederick Neuhouser (Indiana University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Páginas204-229
Data de publicação2008-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoThe Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol9780521831673.009
OpenAlexW2495767219
ISBN9780521831673
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

Hegel's social philosophy, as articulated in his Philosophy of Right (1821), presents a vision of the rational social order that, despite certain obvious archaisms, is still of relevance to anyone interested in reconciling the best aspects of liberal social thought, including its concern for the rights and dignity of individuals, with the human need for deep and enduring communal attachments. Hegel's fundamental claim is that a single idea, properly understood - the idea of freedom - provides the philosophical resources needed to ground a comprehensive account of the good society: what makes social institutions good, on Hegel's view, is that they play an indispensable role in "realizing" freedom (PR, 4). The aim of this paper is to explain this basic thought by examining how Hegel understands and employs the ideal of freedom in justifying the three institutions he regards as essential to a rational social order: the nuclear family, civil society (the market-governed realm of production and exchange), and the modern constitutional state.

Dignity · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Ideal (ethics) · Political science · Practical philosophy · Rationality · Realm · Social change · Social order · Social philosophy · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism