Emil Lask's Philosophy of Right

Hegel famously says in the “Preface” to The Philosophy of Right that that outline or Grundriss presupposes “the speculative mode of cognition.” This is to be contrasted with what he calls “the old logic” and “the knowledge of the understanding” (Verstandeserkenntnis), a term he also uses to characterize all of metaphysics prior to his own. He makes explicit that he is referring to his book, The Science of Logic, but he does not explain the nature of this dependence anywhere in the book. This chapter attempts to explain the nature of this dependence, and to show that it is indeed crucial to understanding the argument of the work.

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Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Peter J. SteinbergerHegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context. Steven B. Smith

Ethics ◽

10.1086/293195 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 100 (2) ◽

pp. 424-426

Author(s):

Paul Franco

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Right

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Hegel and the Rationalisation of Mysticism

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures ◽

10.1017/s008044360001092x ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 118-132

Author(s):

Frederick C. Copleston

Keyword(s):

Imaginary World ◽

The Past ◽

Philosophy Of Right

In the preface to his Philosophy of Right Hegel maintains that a philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought. It is not the philosopher's business to create an imaginary world of his own. His task is to understand the present and actual as subsuming the past in itself, as the culmination (up to date) of a process of development.

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Bad Habits: Habit, Idleness, and Race in Hegel

Hegel Bulletin ◽

10.1017/hgl.2021.1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Rocío Zambrana

Keyword(s):

Ethical Life ◽

Second Nature ◽

Philosophy Of Right

Abstract Recent discussions of Hegel's conception of second nature, specifically focused on Hegel's notion of habit (Gewohnheit), have greatly advanced our understanding of Hegel's views on embodied normativity. This essay examines Hegel's account of embodied normativity in relation to his assessment of good and bad habits. Engaging Hegel's account of the rabble (Pöbel) in the Philosophy of Right and Frank Ruda's assessment of Hegel's rabble, this essay traces the relation between ethicality, idleness and race in Hegel. In being a figure of refusal in its affirmation of idleness, the rabble disallows the progressive revision of the project of modernity central to Hegel's philosophy. Hegel's discussion of the rabble is thus key to assessing the production of race within Hegel's notion of ethical life.

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