REASON AND STATE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.55842124190610

• Palavras-chave: Hegelian Thought; Rational State; Individual Freedoms; Philosophy of History; Objective Morality.

• Keywords: Hegelian Thought; Rational State; Individual Freedoms; Philosophy of History; Objective Morality.

• Abstract:

  With this article we intend to demonstrate the relationship between the State and Reason in the view of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. To do this, we will address the Hegelian conception of the State and the interaction of this institution with the individual and civil society. Added to this, we will try to observe how the State, interpreted by Hegel, adjusts to the particular aspects of each nation and, especially, to the rationality that it incorporates. We will deal with Hegel's conception of the individual and his existence within a rational State and how individual freedoms are recognized and manifested (that is, the role of the individual in this institution, including the rights and duties of the citizen). This study is essentially bibliographic and, for this, we focus on his relevant Hegelian works Philosophy of History (1999) and Hegel's Principles of the Philosophy of Law (1997).