Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 to 1831) was a German philosopher whose Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820) gave civil society (burgerliche Gesellschaft) its modern theoretical structure, positioning it as an intermediate ethical sphere between the family and the state, organized around the system of needs, market relations, and legally regulated work, in which individuals develop identity and standing through economic participation rather than through familial bonds alone.
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Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820) gave civil society its modern structure as the ethical sphere of needs, market relations, and legally regulated work between the family and the state.
Source Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Thom Brooks
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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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