Commentary on the Philosophy of Right

1. I. What the Philosophy of Right Undertakes — and How It Is to Be Read

  1. Hegel’s Program
  2. Three Dimensions of Freedom
  3. How to Read — Logic as a Form of Order
  4. A Clarification on Sublation
  5. On the Relationship Between Hegel and Marx
  6. Why Not Begin with the Individual
  7. The Universal and the Particular — A Methodological Preliminary Remark on the Analysis of Institutions
  8. General and Modern — a Double Caution

2. Excursus: A Preliminary Note on Hegel’s Logic — and Its Significance for the Philosophy of Right

  1. 1. What Logic Means for Hegel
  2. 1. Why the Threefold Division of Right / Morality / Ethical Life Is Not Arbitrary

3. II. Preconditions — Purpose, Free Will, Right

  1. Why These Presuppositions Must Be Developed
  2. The Purpose and the Possibility of Inversion
  3. Human Action as Metabolism — the Transformation of the World
  4. From Natural to Free Will
  5. What Right Means

4. III. Abstract Right — The Will in the Thing

  1. The Person
  2. The Form of Reification and Its Substance
  3. Historical Forms of Contract
  4. Punishment

5. IV. Morality — The Will Within Itself

  1. Historical Precursors and the Specifically Modern Form of Morality
  2. The Three Stages
  3. The Limit of the Merely Moral

6. V. Ethical Life — The Will in the Shared World

  1. The Concept
  2. An Analytical Preliminary Note: Necessary Component and Overlay
  3. Why There Is No Syllogistic System Here
  4. The Family’s Resources
  5. Preliminary Remark: Civil Society as a Modern Phenomenon
  6. Preliminary Remark: The Minimal Form as a General Determination

7. VI. Three Stages of Ethical Life — A Systematic Extension

  1. Why the Hegelian Triad Is Not Sufficient
  2. The Three Stages
  3. Why This Conclusion Is Necessary

8. VII. External Constitutional Law, World History, Absolute Spirit — Three Sketches to Conclude

  1. External Constitutional Law — The Horizontal Dimension
  2. World History — the Vertical Dimension
  3. Absolute Spirit — the Sphere of Ultimate Ends
  4. The Place of the Philosophy of Right in the Whole