Hegel's Philosophy of right: essays on ethics, politics, and law

224 Pages·2012·1.126 MB·English

by  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich;Brooks, Thom

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Thom Brooks is Reader in Political
and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle o f ri g h t
University. He is editor and founder
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s
of the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Philosophy of Right is widely
His books include Hegel’s Political
acknowledged as one of the most
Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of
important texts in the history of
the Philosophy of Right (2007).
moral and political philosophy. While
exerting a profound influence on several
major philosophical movements, the
“This is a fine collection of highly engaging and accessible
groundbreaking 1820 work continues
scholarly essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. The essays focus
to shape philosophical thought. Hegel’s
on ethics, politics, and law and highlight with great originality
Philosophy of Right presents a collection
the significance of Hegel’s thought for contemporary debates
of new essays by leading international
concerning value theory, Kantian formalism, punishment theory,
philosophers and Hegel scholars
political organization, gender equality, standards of justice, and
who analyze and explore Hegel’s key
legal authority. Students and scholars will learn much from this
contributions in the areas of ethics,
thought-provoking and very welcome volume.”
politics, and law.
Stephen Houlgate, University of Warwick
Contributions address issues that include
ethics, the relationship of Hegelian ethics
with contemporary debates in value theory,
the so-called “empty formalism” objection
that Hegel directs at Immanuel Kant’s
moral philosophy, Hegel’s understanding
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Edited by Thom Brooks
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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.