What is Hegel’s notion of freedom and what is his view of the state?
Posted on January 17th, 2010 by admin
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"Freedom is obedience to necessity" – meaning that beings are free when they act in acordance with the dialectical forces which brought them into being. There is no sense in asserting your freedom to be a rational consuming individualist prior to modern capitalism and state security; this would just lead to misery and enslavement.
The state has different roles according to which epoch Hegel is discussing. He considered that the 19th Century liberal bourgeois state was the apotheosis of freedom, and the culmination of history. This is, famously, where his erstwhile disciple Marx took issue with him.
January 17th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
"Freedom is obedience to necessity" – meaning that beings are free when they act in acordance with the dialectical forces which brought them into being. There is no sense in asserting your freedom to be a rational consuming individualist prior to modern capitalism and state security; this would just lead to misery and enslavement.
The state has different roles according to which epoch Hegel is discussing. He considered that the 19th Century liberal bourgeois state was the apotheosis of freedom, and the culmination of history. This is, famously, where his erstwhile disciple Marx took issue with him.
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