When Hegel speaks about the family, he has a very specific form of family life in mind. We call that the petty bourgeois family. In our time we can no...

Discussion of the two paragraphs that mark the transition between Morality and Social Ethics (Sittlichkeit). 

508 But though the good is the universal of will - a universal determined in itself - and thus including in it particularity - still so far as this pa...

507 The truth of these particularities and the concrete unity of their formalism is the content of the universal, essential and actual, will - the law...

Discussion of both the German text and the English translation.  The full video version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPvJ_Ihkris...

A fascinating topic: what are the ordinary presuppositions of our moral life? And what are the limitations or illusions of those presuppositions? Hege...

You can find the video version here: https://youtu.be/i1Cwe-PWfQk. Besides a link to the video you will find a handout, the German text and an English...

# 502  A distinction has thus emerged between the law (right) and  the subjective will. The 'reality' of right,  which the personal will in  the first...

# 501  The instrumentality by which authority is given to intrinsic  right is () that a particular will, that of the  judge, being  conformable to the...

¤ 500  As a violation of right, such an action is essentially and  actually null. In it the agent, as a volitional and  intelligent being,  sets up a ...