Elements of the Philosophy of Right is a work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published in 1820, Hegel's most mature statement of his legal, moral, social and political philosophy, expanding on concepts briefly treated in his earlier Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.
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YearWikipedia lead states the book was published in 1820, though the book's own original title page dates it to 1821; 1820 used as the publication year, 1821 recorded here as the alternative the title page itself carries. Classification
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Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hegel
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Hegel's most mature statement of his legal, moral, social and political philosophy, it is an expansion upon concepts only briefly treated in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, published in 1817.
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is a work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published in 1820
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right is a work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published in 1820, Hegel's most mature statement of his legal, moral, social and political philosophy, expanding on concepts briefly treated in his earlier Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.
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In 1821 in Berlin Hegel published his major work in political philosophy, Elements of the Philosophy of Right , based on lectures given at Heidelberg but ultimately grounded in the section of the Philosophy of Spirit part of the Encyclopaedia dealing with objective spirit.
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