Philosophy of Right
Complete Overview
Philosophy Portal’s next course focuses on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and starts May 18th 2024. To find out more, or to sign up, see: Philosophy of Right.
The following video offers a complete overview of the Philosophy of Right as a preparation for the course which will be unfolding in the next 1-2 months.
Throughout the video, we cover:
Philosophical speculation for political science to aid transition from age of authority to age of feeling capable of lifting itself to thought
The problem/danger of evil consciousness as the individual speaking the truth of right for the collective out of self-seeking vanity
The historical battle between sophism and Platonism, best expressed in the tension visible throughout philosophy of opinions versus truth
Plato’s Republic as instituting a worldwide revolution yet to be raised to consciousness of the unity of the individual and the universal
Philosophy as being limited to what is, versus the beyond of philosophy in what should be; embodying this tension as the “rose in the cross” of the present
The importance of self-will as a political revolution, first expressed in the affects of Protestant reformation, but yet to raise itself to concept
Philosophy “Science of Right” as necessary to raise self-will to universal concept and embody the spiritual kingdom as the gravity of the will
The necessary unity of thought-will as the necessity of the unity of theory-practice for making a home in the spiritual kingdom of the will
The key to singular-universality of the spiritual kingdom in the limitation of will, or self-relating negativity helping us move from child-like impulse to maturity
Happiness in moving from child-like impulse to mature adulthood found in movement from impulse to duty that is universal in its particularity
Truth of Christian doctrine hangs on the centrality of original sin as the evil of the natural will and its immanence in the realisation of spiritual will
True infinity is also found in the movement from the child’s will (slavery) through the spurious infinity of will towards the circle of circles
The movement to spiritual will through the negativity of the dialectic produces a positivity as a result (where all dependence on other things fall away)
The Books overall structure embodies the dialectic of the Science of Logic of abstract-negative-concrete
The abstract dimension of the dialectic is Abstract Right, the negative dimension of the dialectic is Morality, and the concrete dimension of the dialectic is ethics
Abstract Right is itself broken into the mediation of property of externalised ownership, contract as mediation of wills, and wrongs in need of overcoming
Morality is itself broken into purpose and responsibility, intention and well being, and the good and conscience, as the necessary mediation to the ethical system
The Ethical System grounds the most intimate, in family, marriage and education, towards the global through civic community, the state and freedom of world spirit
Philosophy Portal’s next course on the Philosophy of Right starts May 18th. To find out more or to get involved, see: Philosophy of Right.