Philosophy of Right

Name: Philosophy of Right
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ISBN: 9780486445632

ISBN-10: 0486445631

ISBN-13: 9780486445632

Edition: 2005

Authors: S. W. Dyde, G. W. F. Hegel

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Hegel's 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of his influential system, in which he applies his most important concept--the dialectics--to law, rights, morality, the family, economics, and the state. The philosopher defines universal right as the synthesis between the thesis of an individual acting in accordance with the law and the occasional conflict of an antithetical desire to follow private convictions. The state, he declares, must permit individuals to satisfy both demands, thereby realizing social harmony and prosperity--the perfect synthesis. Further, Hegel renounces the French Revolution and republican government in favor of an idealized form of a constitutional monarchy, in…

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List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.11" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was perhaps the most systematic of the post-Kantian idealist German philosophers. T. M. Knox translated many of Hegel's works into English. Harry Burrows Acton (1908-1974) was a British academic philosopher known for defending the morality of capitalism. John R. Silber was president of Boston University from 1971 until 1996.



Translator's Preface


Author's Preface


Introduction: Conception of the Philosophy of Right, Conception of the Will, of Freedom, and of Right


Division of the Work



Abstract Right



Property



Possession



Use



Relinquishment


Transition from Property to Contract



Contract



Wrong



Unpremeditated (Civil) Wrong



Fraud



Violence and Crime


Transition from Right to Morality



Morality



Purpose and Responsibility



Intention and Well-being



The Good and Conscience


Moral Forms of Evil. Hypocrisy, Probability, Good Intention, Conviction, Irony


Transition from Morality to the Ethical System



Ethical Observance



The Family



Marriage



Family Means



Education of Children and Disruption of the Family


Transition of the Family into the Civic Community



The Civic Community



The System of Wants



Want and its Satisfaction



Labour



Wealth and the Classes or Estates



Administration of Justice



Right as Law



Law as Established



The Court



Police and the Corporation



The Police



The Corporation



The State



Constitutional Law



The State Constitution



The Prince



The Executive



The Legislature



Foreign Polity



International Law



World-History


Index of Words


Index of Subjects