Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39056 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Hegel's incomparable 1821 dialectics on the subjective nature of the human will and the relationship between society and its governing principles are essential to the understanding of events of the modern world. Influential beyond words and controversial, even to present-day readers, this is the signature work of the German Idealist movement.

Customer Reviews

Brian Wayne Wells, Esquire, reviews "Philosophy of Right"
This is an excellent 1967 translation of the classic 1821 book written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The book is unabridged and offers the reader a view into the monumental system developed by Hegel in the 19th Century.

Although the "continental philosophy" of Hegel is now out of fashion in scholastic/philosophical circles in the United States, (abandoned, in large part, for the "analytic philosophy" of Rudolf Carnap), this book offers the reader a chance to see Hegel applying his most important concept--the dialectics--to law, rights, morality, the family, economic life and the state.

Universal right is defined as the synthesis of the conflict and struggle between the thesis of a person acting in accordance with the law and the (sometimes) antithesis of the person's desire to act in accordance with thier own convictions. The State is must mold itself to allow individuals to satisfy the demands of both, in order to bring about harmony and prosperity in human society--the perfect synthesis.

Will anyone ever see this?
This is a really great book -- it's like communitarianism, but with actual thought included.