Philosophy of Right

Lectures on Aesthetics #0

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Samuel Walters Dyde (Translator)

In this 1821 classic, Hegel applies his most important concept & the dialectics to law, rights, morality, the family, economics & the state. The philosopher defines universal right as the synthesis between the thesis of an individual acting in accordance with the law & the occasional conflict of an antithetical desire to follow private convictions.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, Classics, Law, Theory, German Literature

272 pages, paper

First published January 1, 1821

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.