Lecture Series: “Elements of the Philosophy of Right” by Hesam Salamat

Hegel published the Elements of the Philosophy of Right in 1821. Its outlines, however, had already been published earlier, in 1817, in the second part (under the title “Objective Spirit”) of the third chapter (titled “The Science of Spirit”) of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. In the Elements, Hegel provides a detailed exposition of his political philosophy, as a moment within a more general philosophical system, and in it he attempts to mediate, in a specifically dialectical manner, between the two traditions of liberalism and conservatism. This very Hegelian in-between position has always caused the Elements to become the target of contradictory judgments, for the simple reason that traces of determining components from both of these traditions can be found throughout its text. Hegel’s ambition was to reconcile freedom and necessity, right and duty, and autonomy and obedience in the Elements. It is for this reason that engaging with the Elements is, in practice, also an engagement with the claims of the liberal and conservative traditions. Hegel himself lectured on the Elements seven times between 1817 and 1831. When death came, Hegel was busy working on his seventh lecture course on the Elements.

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The primary sources for the lecture series “Elements of the Philosophy of Right” are as follows:

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1999) Elements of the Philosophy of Right Mahbod Iranitalab, Tehran: Parvin Publications

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012) Political Notebooks Translated by Mohammad Mehdi Ardabili, Tehran: Roozbahan

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1991) Elements of Philosophy of Right, Translated by H. B. Nisbet, Cambridge University Press

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