Hegel and Right: A Study of the Philosophy of Right

255 Pages·2018·1.159 MB·English

by  Philip J. Kain

Hegel and Right

Hegel and Right
A Study of the Philosophy of Right
PHILIP J. KAIN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kain, Philip J., 1943– author.
Title: Hegel and right : a study of the philosophy of right / Philip J. Kain.
Description: Albany, NY : State University of New York, 2018. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017044460 | ISBN 9781438470795 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781438470801 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. Grundlinien der
Philosophie des Rechts. | Law—Philosophy. | Natural law.
Classification: LCC K230.H43 A3118 2018 | DDC 340/.11—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044460
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations ix
1. The Idea of Right 1
Spirit 2
Freedom 10
Right 17
End of History 22
Structure, Method, and Development 32
2. Abstract Right 39
Right and Spirit 39
Property 41
Punishment 43
3. Moralität 55
The Right of Subjectivity 55
The Categorical Imperative 58
Moralität and Freedom 79
4. Sittlichkeit: The Family 83
Transition from Moralität to Sittlichkeit 83
The Family and Love 93
Marriage 100
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5. Sittlichkeit: Civil Society 109
Civil Society as Sittlichkeit 109
The Failure of Civil Society? 114
Corporations 121
The Solution 128
Alienation 132
6. Sittlichkeit: The State 137
Democracy vs. Monarchy 137
The Realization of Rationality 146
World History 149
The Absolute 163
Conclusion 169
Notes 175
Bibliography 221
Index 235
Acknowledgments
Iw ould like to thank the following individuals for very helpful com-
ments on earlier drafts of parts of this book: Mane Hajdin, Luis
Cheng-Guajardo, William Parent, Robert Shanklin, and Brian Buckley.
Parts of chapter 4 first appeared as “Hegel, Recognition, and Same-
Sex Marriage,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 46 (2015): 226−41. Parts of
chapter 5 first appeared as “Hegel and the Failure of Civil Society,” Owl
of Minerva, 46 (2014−15): 1−23. Another small part of chapter 5 appeared
as “Alienation and Market Socialism: Comments on Schweickart’s, ‘Marx’s
Democratic Critique of Capitalism and Its Implications for a Viable
Socialism,’ ” Owl of Minerva, 46 (2014−15): 79−83. Parts of chapter 6
first appeared as “Hegel on Sovereignty and Monarchy,” Idealistic Studies,
45 (2015): 265−77. Other parts of chapter 6 first appeared as “Hegel,
History, and Evil,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 33 (2016): 275−91.
Another small part of chapter 6 first appeared as “Niccolò Machiavelli—
Adviser of Princes,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 25 (1995): 33−55.
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Abbreviations
CPR Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
CPrR Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
EL Hegel, The Encyclopaedia Logic (Geraets, Suchting, Harris
translation)
EU&D Freyenhagen, “Empty, Useless, and Dangerous?”
Groundwork Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
H&O Kain, Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology
of Spirit
HER Williams, Hegel’s Ethics of Recognition
HET Wood, Hegel’s Ethical Thought
ILHP Hegel, Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy
IUH Kant, “Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan
Point of View”
KET Wood, Kant’s Ethical Thought
KPP Kant, Immanuel Kant: Practical Philosophy
LNRPS Hegel, Lectures on Natural Right and Political Science
LPS Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827−8
LPWHI Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction
LPWHv1 Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I
M&MPT Kain, Marx and Modern Political Theory
MECW Marx, Marx Engels Collected Works
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