Reissue from the classic Muirhead Library of Philosophy series (originally published between 1890s - 1970s).

In The Phenomenology of Mind, idealist philosopher Georg Hegel (1770 1831) defied the traditional epistemological distinction of objective from subjective and developed his own dialectical alternative. Remarkable for the breadth and profundity of its philosophical insights, this work combines psychology, logic, moral philosophy, and history to form a comprehensive view that encompasses all forms of civilization. Its three divisions consist of the subjective mind (dealing with anthropology and psychology), the objective mind (concerning philosophical issues of law and morals), and the...

Complete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher's influential system. In the "Philosophy of Right, " Hegel applies his most important concept the dialectics to law, rights, morality, the family, economics, and the state. The last of Hegel's works to be published in his lifetime, this volume combines moral and political philosophy to form a sociologic view dominated by the idea of the state. Hegel defines universal right as the synthesis between the thesis of an individual acting in accordance with the law and...

Zu Hegels verschiedenen Vorlesungen uber die -Philosophie des Rechts- gab es bisher jeweils nur eine Mit- oder Nachschrift seiner Schuler. Deshalb liess sich schwer einschatzen, inwieweit diese die sich andernden Vorstellungen Hegels uber Recht und Staatsverfassung authentisch wiedergaben. Die neu aufgetauchte und erstmals kritisch edierte Nachschrift K. W. L. Heyses stammt aus dem Wintersemester 1822/23, aus dem es bisher die Mitschrift H. G. Hothos gab. Beide erganzen sich gegenseitig und zeigen, dass Hotho und Heyse Hegels Darlegungen genau verfolgt und in verkurzter Form notiert haben....