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Natural Law and the Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel

by Tony Burns

Published 15 February 1996

This work considers two questions: is Hegel a legal positivist or a natural law theorist; and, is he a totalitarian or a liberal? The author examines both questions and concludes that Hegel's best work constitutes a synthesis of pre-modern (the Greeks, Aristotle)and modern thought (liberalism).