Filozofija i drustvo 2019 Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages: 101-121
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1901101K
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The interface of the universal: On Hegel’s concept of the police
Kobe Zdravko (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The article provides a tentative reading of Hegel’s police as a concept that
constitutes a crucial test for the rationality of Hegel’s state and that
actually played a very important role in the formation of his model of
rationality. It starts by considering some significant changes in Hegel’s
approach to the subject in the Jena period, especially in reference to
Fichte and Spinoza; then, it presents Hegel’s conception of the police as
the interface of the universal in his mature political philosophy, together
with his treatment of the disturbing problem of poverty and the rabble; and
to conclude, it adds some general remarks on Hegel’s police, then and now.
Keywords: G.W.F. Hegel, J.G. Fichte, political philosophy, social philosophy, political economy, civil society, police, welfare state, corporation