Hegel's philosophy of right

221 Pages·2012·3.693 MB·English

by  Thom Brooks

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Edited by Thom Brooks
Thiseditionfirstpublished2012
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Thom Brooks
Part I Ethics 7
1 Consequentialism and Deontology in the Philosophy of Right 9
Dean Moyar
2 The Empty Formalism Objection Revisited: x135R
and Recent Kantian Responses 43
Fabian Freyenhagen
3 On Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Ethics: Beyond the
Empty Formalism Objection 73
Robert Stern
Part II Politics 101
4 Hegel and the Unified Theory of Punishment 103
Thom Brooks
5 Hard Work: Hegel and the Meaning of the
State in his Philosophy of Right 124
Kimberly Hutchings
6 Gender, the Family, and the Organic State in
Hegel’s Political Thought 143
Alison Stone
vi Contents
Part III Law 165
7 Natural Law Internalism 167
Thom Brooks
8 Hegel on the Relation between Law and Justice 180
Alan Brudner
Index 209
Notes on Contributors
Thom Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle
University.HeiseditorandfounderoftheJournalofMoralPhilosophy.His
researchinterests arein Britishand German Idealism, democratic theory,
global justice, punishment, and theories of justice. He is the author of
Hegel’sPoliticalPhilosophy:ASystematicReadingofthePhilosophyofRight
(2007) and Punishment (2012) and editor of several books, including
Rousseau and Law (2005), The Global Justice Reader (2008), The Right to
a Fair Trial (2009), New Waves in Ethics (2011), and Punishment (forth-
coming). He is currently editing a collection, Rawls’s Political Liberalism,
with Martha C. Nussbaum.
Alan Brudner is Albert Abel Professor of Law and Professor of Political
ScienceattheUniversityofToronto. HeistheauthorofPunishment and
Freedom(2009),ConstitutionalGoods(2004),andTheUnityoftheCommon
Law:StudiesinHegelianJurisprudence(1995),aswellasarticlesonavariety
of topics in legal and political theory.
FabianFreyenhagen isLecturer inPhilosophyattheUniversity of Essex.
His research interests are in moral and political philosophy as well as in
modern European philosophy (especially Kant and Adorno). He is co-
investigator in the AHRC-funded Essex Autonomy Project and has pub-
lished in journals such as Kantian Review and Inquiry.
KimberlyHutchingsisProfessorofInternationalRelationsattheLondon
SchoolofEconomics.SheistheauthorofKant,CritiqueandPolitics(1996),
International Political Theory: Re-thinking Ethics in a Global Era (1999),
HegelandFeministPhilosophy(2003),TimeandWorldPolitics:Thinkingthe
Present(2008),andGlobalEthics:AnIntroduction(2010).Sheisalsotheco-
editor, with Tuija Pulkkinen, of Hegel and Feminist Thought: Beyond
viii Notes on Contributors
Antigone? (2010). Her interests include the work of Kant and Hegel;
international, feminist, and postcolonial ethical and political theory; and
politics and violence. She is currently working on a series of co-written
papers (with Elizabeth Frazer) on conceptions of the relation between
politics and violence in the western tradition of political thought.
Dean Moyar is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
JohnsHopkinsUniversity.HereceivedhisB.S.fromDukeUniversityand
hisPh.D.fromtheUniversityofChicago.Hisessayshaveappearedinthe
JournalofMoralPhilosophyandHegel-Studien,amongotherjournals.Heis
theco-editor(withMichaelQuante)ofHegel’sPhenomenologyofSpirit:A
CriticalGuide(2007),theeditorofTheRoutledgeCompaniontoNineteenth
Century Philosophy (2010), and the author of Hegel’s Conscience (2011).
RobertSternisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofSheffield.Heis
theauthorofHegel,Kant,andtheStructureoftheObject(1990)andHegel
and the “Phenomenology of Spirit” (2002), as well as of numerous papers,
many of which appear in his collection Hegelian Metaphysics (2009).
AlisonStoneisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyatLancasterUniversityandis
theauthorofPetrifiedIntelligence:NatureinHegel’sPhilosophy(2004),Luce
IrigarayandthePhilosophyofSexualDifference(2006)andAnIntroduction
to Feminist Philosophy (2007). She is currently working on a book on
Feminism,Psychoanalysis,andMaternalSubjectivity,whichisforthcoming.
Acknowledgments
Thereareseveraldebtsaccumulatedintheproductionofthiscollectionof
essaysthatmustberecorded.Firstofall,mymostsincerethanksmustgoto
Nick Bellorini for his strong support of the project since the beginning,
whichhasbeencrucial,aswellasforhisexcellentadvice.Imustalsoexpress
my special thanks to Jeff Dean and Tiffany Mok for their help at several
points and, most especially, for their patience as this collection came
together.Mylargestthanksmustgotothecontributorstothisimportant
volumeforwhatare,inmyview,genuinelyoutstandingessaysthatdeepen
andbroadenourknowledgeofoneofphilosophy’smostimportanttexts.
Thisvolumeisdedicatedtothem–Alan,Alison,Dean,Fabian,Kimberly,
andRobert–formakingitallthatitis.Finally,Imustnotethatresearchon
this book benefited from my term of research leave at both Newcastle
University and the University of Oxford.
Thom Brooks
Oxford
Introduction
Thom Brooks
G.W.F.Hegel’sPhilosophyofRight iswidely acknowledgedas oneofthe
most important texts in the history of moral and political philosophy. It
hasexercisedadirectinfluenceonseveralphilosophicalmovements,such
as British Idealism, communitarianism, critical theory, and Marxism. Its
influencecontinuestodaythroughtheworkofseveralleadingfigures,suchas
AxelHonneth,JohnRawls,andCharlesTaylor.Hegel’sPhilosophyofRight
aspirestoprovidethemostsignificantcollectionofessaysinrecentyearson
thisimportanttext,breakingnewgroundacrosstheareasofethics,politics,
and law from both historical and contemporary perspectives. This intro-
ductionwilldiscussthebackgroundtothisproject,thegeneralargumentsof
Hegel’sPhilosophyofRight,andtheessaysincludedinthevolume.
1 Background
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right has received significant attention in previous
important work. Perhaps the leading classic collection of essays on the
Philosophy of Right was edited by Z. A. Pelczynski in his Hegel’s Political
Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives (1971a). This collection contained
nowclassicessaysexploringHegel’sviewsonethics,punishment,thestate,
war, and much more (see Cooper 1971; Ilting 1971; Pelczynski 1971a,
1971b,1971c;Shklar1971;Verene1971).Moreover,wide-rangingworkset
a clear bar for all work following afterward.
Hegel’sPhilosophyofRight:EssaysonEthics,Politics,andLaw,FirstEdition.
EditedbyThomBrooks.
(cid:2)2012BlackwellPublishingLtd.Published2012byBlackwellPublishingLtd.