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Poverty, in a word, first accurately identified by Hegel: what social class or institution is capable of acting universally within any given state to redress social and economic inequality, it concerns the primary unsolved problem of modern political systems? And appeared in translation of the original English into Spanish, junio 1983) was edited by Linus Pauling, num 245, tomo XXI, ciencas - Artes - Letras (Barcelona, which appeared in the international journal Folia Humanistica, the present article.

And then later the results, first the why! Theoretical consideration of the why behind these two failures leads to unique and highly interesting results. What is obvious by now is that neither works! Whose universal class is the working class which functions to resolve all hitherto existing class conflicts, engels), the other leading contender has been communism (Marx. Whose disequilibrium it is designed to redress, a body that incorporates and therefore also represents all social parties and interests in any given society, both of them within memory: Fascism (Rocco and Gentile) which proposes a corporative state, two proposed solutions to this problem have taken root in society.

Who is able justly to decide the rights of all is also rightly able to wield the 'public sword' with justice and precision in the universal interest. The question becomes a matter of ones interpretation of social class. Is who by right shall wield the public sword, the question then? This brutal fact of nature requires the "public sword" to shelter and defend the victims of superior force against their oppressors. Doing what one pleases means the rich and greedy can kill and rob the weak at their pleasure since they have the power to do so. The "private sword" is an instrument of power that can easily violate the rights of the weak and the poor, since the rights of all are equal; the state of nature is one where everyone may do whatever they please, in the language of Thomas Hobbes. Poverty is violence and violence calls for social redress. The central problem of injustice in society is poverty.

Seeing God in Leviathan: The Riddle of Hegel's State Theory

" (note 2) " Hegel concludes this monumental insult: Hobbes' vision "is therefore never to be apprehended as Idea. With use of concepts as is only clumsily styled reasoning. . Without presenting a coherent picture. . Which expresses the spirit of its maker mutely, he characterized Hobbes' theory as being " like a building, on the other hand, " (footnote 1) But. It coincides exactly with the Idea. . Is regarded as an outcome, its appearance, to the degree that this. . Truly express the ethos of a people (Sittlichkeit). . He wrote: "A grand and pure vision may. It was ambiguous, as far as Hegel's own assessment of the theory of natural right is concerned. The question is what Hegel's theory provides that Hobbes' does not. The purpose of the present study is to show that Hegel's Idea of the state may be put to a constructive test against Hobbes' political theory.

" (note 3) He had thought of his own work as providing a "firm and lasting edifice. Imagine Hobbes' surprise.

What is the Idea? The riddle of Hegel's state theory is framed in terms of the contradiction that natural right both may and may not be apprehended as Idea.

In the 'freedom' of their concepts, . Are postulated by Hegel as becoming self-conscious since they are comprehended in the Idea by no one in particular as they are 'in-and-for-themselves' i.e, the objects of the sciences and of human thought generally, within the comprehension of the absolute idea. The objects within the sciences are studied as they are conceived to be 'in themselves'. But objects fully included within the consciousness through which they are known, no longer objects isolated and specialized within set fields, the absolute idea's leading characteristic is that it not only tramples the compartments of human knowledge down (each is an instance of consciousness) but it includes the various objects of the sciences within it. Which the world has of itself, it is the only knowledge -- and hence the best knowledge, but even more, collected in thought at will; this not only constitutes the whole of human knowledge. And more literally known as the highest form of philosophic knowledge -- from which nothing is excluded, it is short for ' Absolute Idea' which may be figuratively understood as God's knowledge of himself.

As every lover knows full well, love is very different from acknowledged love. Is to mark the difference between loving someone and knowing that ones love is recognized and answered, from the perspective of mundane awareness, the closest one can come to realizing what Hegel meant with this.

Which is the science of the Idea, annulled and superseded (note 4) in Hegel's version of science (Wissenschaft), while suspending its validity as being only a result, is the riddle of his simultaneous absorption of the whole of Hobbes' theory of natural right, then, the riddle of Hegel's state theory.

Evolution of the Riddle

A difference expressible in two words: individual freedom, it enabled Hegel to sort out the crucial difference between the ancient polis and the modern nation state. (note 5) The perception of state life as 'objective spirit' is a distinction of enormous importance. Which had been the case in Hegel's two early (1802) political works, this term made its first appearance in the Encyclopedia (1817) and replaced Hegel's designation of political life as belonging to the domain of 'absolute' spirit'. Turns on his designation of the domain of politics as belonging to what he called 'objective spirit', by which Hegel's state philosophy became the theory of the modern secular nation state, the development of the Philosophy of Right's leading ideas.

" (note 7) "(t)he law that the practical reason is said to dictate fails the moment it has to produce its first concrete content, since the phenomena apprehended in intuition (Anschauung) may never be known to be what things in themselves are, " And. It must borrow the content of the given action from the world of phenomena. . As Joseph Maier has written: "As soon as practical reason attempts to demonstrate its validity in any given concrete individual problem. (note 6)
This formula for conceiving states as a union of concept with intuition flew in the face of Kant whose formalism dictated the impossibility of the ego's reaching any practical conclusions whatsoever. Its conception is the absolute union (Einssein) of its individuals. Its vision is an absolute people. . For the Idea is nothing but the identity of both, it is necessary to reconcile vision (Anschauung) completely with conception (Begriff), hegel had written:
In order to fathom the Idea of social morality, in his effort to come to terms with the ancient city state.

Was outspoken concerning the limitations of ethics ('right reasons') for producing union in the state too, hobbes, Sits ill with Hegel's idea that social morality (Sittlichkeit) is the foundation of the absolute union of the state's individuals, " (note 8) That the laws of states become dogmatic (rather than remaining moral) the moment they designate particular actions right or wrong. And therefore becomes reconstituted in maxims (Grundsaetze), absoluteness of content escapes. . Hegel's summary of the limits of Kant's morality for statecraft was that "(t)hrough the absoluteness of his propositions. To distinguish particular actions as being right or wrong, if not of morals, for it is the business of states, from Kant's conceptions of morality; therefore, the actual character of states is not to be derived.

" (note 11) No "union of wills in one will, in Hobbes' definition, there can be no state or, without an interpretation of the community's ethical standards in law. Their results agree, throughout inconsequential empiricism" (note 10), (note 9)Though Hegel carped against Hobbes' method (an "old. . But by the civil Law, this is not determined by the natural, what injury in a Citizen, what Adultery, what Murther, but what is to be called Theft, and all injuries are forbid by the Laws of Nature, adultery, murther, theft.

Hereafter cited as EW, 1839-45), bohn. (London: J. 11 vols, edited by Sir William Molesworth, i have cross-referenced citations from Hobbes with The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, footnotes: In the notes below.

1:454 1958), hermann Glockner (Stuttgart: Frommans Verlag, Ed, reprinted in Hegels Saemmtliche Werke, " Journal der Philosphie 2 (Stueck 2/3 1802-1803, und sein Verhaeltnis zu den positiven Rechtswissenschaften, seine Stelle in der praktischen Philosophie, "Ueber die wissenschaftlichen Behandlung des Naturrechts, georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 1.

Ibid. 2.

3:29, 18 and EW, 1651, leviathan (Printed for Andrew Crooke, thomas Hobbes. 3.

" Journal of the History of Ideas 19 (June 1958), "The Legend of 'Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis', see Gustav Mueller. 4.

Above, see note one, for the other work of the same date. From a manuscript dated 1802, 1893), zickfeldt. W. Georg Mollat (Osterweick/Harz: A. Ed, system der Sittlichkeit, georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 5.

Introduction (no pagination given), system, hegel. 6.

51-52, 1939), on Hegel's Critique of Kant (New York: Columbia University Press, joseph Maier. 7.

445 ueber, hegel, 8.

2:85 100-1 and EW, 1651), , G. Philosophical Rudiments Concerrning Government and Society (London: Printed by F, thomas Hobbes. 9.

454 ueber, hegel, 10.

2:68, 79 and EW, rudiments, hobbes. 11.

The idea that had been missing dawned on me - so I am ready to deliver the sequel promised a while ago, the same one who asked me if I wouldn't please stop smoking (I did), in conversation with my daughter Lola. Upon which so many of the discussions (and modern social problems) turn, i promised a sequel that will demonstrate limitations proper to the idea of social classes, a part of which you have just read, in the article.

. . Thought is a conversation in the mind, as Plato observed. With mine, this will be forthcoming but until it is I'd love to share ideas and hear from anyone whose interests coincide or vary - to whatever degree conceivable, okay. Particularly in British systems of thought that served the Empire upon which the sun never set like a butler in livery, the adoption of this facile idea has been astonishing. Each of which has its own particular function, silver and gold, plato compared social classes to three sorts of metal: brass.

Thomas Mueller with best wishes,