Description

• Title:
  Hegel’s Concept of Right
• Creator:
  Horn, Christoph
• Description:
  This article examines the foundations for the legitimacy of law from the perspective of Hegel’s philosophy. In a first step, Kant’s justification of law is discussed, as Hegel takes the Kantian model as a central point of (critical) reference. Then, in the Section 2, I discuss Hegel’s reasons for rejecting the main strategies of justification of the legal order: natural law, contractarianism and legal positivism. This is further followed by a discussion of the meaning and scope of Hegel’s contextualism, according to which there can be no practical normativity without a certain historical embedding. Finally, I describe a more traditional met-aphysical reading (supported among others by Kevin Thompson) that I consider to be the correct solution, contrasting it with Honneth’s theory of recognition and Bran-dom’s pragmatism.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2022 Christoph Horn
• Date:
  2022.07.28
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  ETHICS IN PROGRESS; Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022); 24-40;
  Ethics in Progress; Tom 13 Nr 1 (2022); 24-40;
  2084-9257
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/34813/30130
• Subject:
  Hegel’s concept of the right;
  justification of law;
  natural law;
  contrac-tarianism;
  positivism
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/34813 ;
  10.14746/eip.2022.1.3
• Data provider:
  Wydział Filozoficzny UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text