Philosophy of Right (Great Books in Philosophy)
Contributors: S. W. Dyde (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781573921053
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Political science & theory; Philosophy Of Law; Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich; Philosophy; Political science; History & Surveys - 19th Century; Law; Natural law; State, The
Description: Among the most influential parts of the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) were his ethics, his theory of the state, and his philosophy of history. The Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts) (1821), the last work published in Hegel's lifetime, is a combined system of moral and political philosophy, or a sociology dominated by the idea of the state. Here Hegel repudiates his earlier assessment of the French Revolution as a "a marvelous sunrise" in the realization of liberty.

Rejecting the republican form of government, he espouses an idealized form of a constitutional monarchy, whose ultimate power rests with the sovereign.