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With Hegel’s metaphysics attracting renewed attention, it is time to address a longstanding
criticism: Scholars from Marx to Popper and Habermas have worried that
Hegel’s metaphysics has anti-individualist and authoritarian implications, which are
particularly pronounced in his Philosophy of History, since Hegel identifies historical
progress with reason imposing itself on individuals. Rather than proposing an alternative
non-metaphysical conception of reason, as Pippin or Brandom have done, this article
argues that critics are broadly right in their metaphysical reading of Hegel’s central
concepts. However, they are mistaken about what Hegel’s approach entails, when one
examines the specific types of states discussed (and rejected) by the philosopher in his
Philosophy of History. Even on a traditional metaphysical reading, Hegel is not only nonauthoritarian;
he also makes a powerful argument concerning freedom, whereupon the
freest society involves collective oversight and the shaping of social structures so as to
ensure that they benefit everybody.
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Keywords | G.W.F. Hegel authoritarianism Logic metaphysics history |
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