Hegel’s Cartesian Grounding of Political Philosophy

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https://doi.org/10.24310/Studiahegelianastheg.v8i.13969

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Hegel, Descartes, political philosophy, totality, substance

Abstract

Hegel saw modern philosophy as internally divided between its metaphysics and epistemology, on the one hand, and its political philosophy, on the other. Descartes had developed a metaphysics of totality to ground the epistemological certainty of the cogito, treating true unity as a unity of opposites (a totality). But political philosophy, in its empiricist and formalist forms, relied on an impoverished conception of unity—treating it, respectively, as a mere aggregation of parts or as formal consistency. The Philosophy of Right thus attempted to rectify the deficiencies of political philosophy by grounding it on the Cartesian concept of totality.

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2022-06-28

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Hegel’s Cartesian Grounding of Political Philosophy. (2022). Studia Hegeliana , 8, 137-154. https://doi.org/10.24310/Studiahegelianastheg.v8i.13969