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Welfare has, in this Idea, no validity for itself as the existence of the single, particular will, but only as universal welfare, and essentially as universal in itself, that is, according to freedom — welfare is not a good without right. Just as little is right the good without welfare (fiat justitia ought not to have pereat mundus as its consequence). |126| The good, thus, as the necessity to be actual through the particular will, and at the same time as the substance of that will, has absolute right over against the abstract right of property and the particular purposes of welfare. Each of these moments, insofar as it is distinguished from the good, has validity only insofar as it is in accordance with it and subordinated to it.

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  1. Hegel (Notes) Avatar
    Hegel (Notes)

    a) Formal: knowing that [something] is good. b) What is good? – particularity – as in the foregoing. c) I am what decides – I know and determine it out of my subjectivity – (as before, life).

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    Hegel (Simple)

    § 130: No good without right, no right without welfare

    In the good, right and welfare belong together. Neither may push the other aside.

    Welfare without right:

    Here my welfare no longer counts as my private advantage. It counts only as a welfare that goes together with the freedom of all. A welfare that demands a wrong is not good.

    Right without welfare:

    In the same way, right alone is not good. An old saying goes: There shall be justice, even if the world perishes. But a right that lets the world perish is not the good.

    Who has the last word?

    The good. It stands above the mere right of property. It also stands above the particular purposes of welfare. Both hold only insofar as they accord with the good.

    Summary: Welfare without right is not good, and right without welfare is not good. The good stands above both. They hold only insofar as they serve it.

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