The Philosophy of Right (as it is usually called) begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can only realize itself in the complicated social context of property rights and relations, contracts, moral commitments, family life, the economy, the legal system, and the polity. A person is not truly free, in other words, unless he is a participant in all of these different aspects of the life of the state. The bulk of the book is devoted to discussing Hegel's three spheres of versions of 'right, ' each one larger than the preceding ones and encompassing...
The Philosophy of Right (as it is usually called) begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can only real...
