“REASON IN HISTORY” AND “PHILOSOPHY OF THE STATE” IN HEGEL’S VISION
“REASON IN HISTORY” AND “PHILOSOPHY OF THE STATE” IN HEGEL’S VISION

Summary/Abstract: The main idea of this article signifies a new perspective on Hegel’s philosophy of history, implicitly on his social-political thought, repudiating any association of the German thinker with the political authoritarianism and even more with the political totalitarianism. A thinker, who appeals to a metaphysical theory of the spirit to give substance to freedom, a central concept of his political philosophy, cannot generate a political theory that will annul freedom. The greatest Hegelian lesson of the comprehension of history is the one of dialectics. This dialectic of the spirit, in its freedom, is what Hegel designates in a general sense of the word as the law. Thus, the paradigm of his political thinking exceeds even the ethical paradigm of Greek antiquity, even if from spiritual point of view the law is inferior to ethics. That is the reason why, in the Hegelian conception, morality becomes part of the theory of the state

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