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Full Idea
Hegel thinks that political and social freedom involves letting one's actions be guided by those institutional structures (such as the family, corporations and the state) which secure rights, welfare, and mutual respect.
Gist of Idea
Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821]) by Stephen Houlgate - Hegel 102
Book Ref
'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.102
A Reaction
Since there are some hideous families, corporations and states, we will need more than that. He may have a point, though, that the rights we desire can only exist in healthy examples of such institutions. Popper loved institutions.
Related Idea
Idea 22970 Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society [Marx]
| 20092 | One principle of liberty is to take turns ruling and being ruled [Aristotle] |
| 19924 | The freest state is a rational one, where people can submit themselves to reason [Spinoza] |
| 19871 | Freedom is not absence of laws, but living under laws arrived at by consent [Locke] |
| 5621 | The existence of reason depends on the freedom of citizens to agree, doubt and veto ideas [Kant] |
| 22085 | Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
| 21017 | Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms [Nussbaum] |
| 18661 | Ancient freedom was free participation in politics, not private independence of life [Kymlicka] |