October 1991
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Cambridge Core - Texts in Political Thought - Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right - edited by Allen W. Wood
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October 1991
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24 Reads
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927 Citations
Cambridge Core - Texts in Political Thought - Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right - edited by Allen W. Wood
... But how do we handle the reality of legal norms, rights, and institutions without ignoring the problems of violence produced by the law and the state? Surely, it would not require a reaffirmation of the State, which always presupposes itself as necessary to make society possible (Hobbes 2017), and as the highest stage of social organisation (Hegel 1991). Instead, we need to question the concept of the norm itself as the main feature of the law, since it is always related to the working of reason and is an expression of a rational and transcendental subject acting upon the world. ...
October 1991