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In the administration of justice, civil society — in which the Idea has become lost in particularity, and has fallen apart into the separation of the inner and the outer — leads itself back to its concept, the unity of the universal that is in itself with subjective particularity, though the latter is present [only] in the individual case, and the former only in the significance of abstract right. The actualization of this unity, extended over the whole compass of particularity — at first as a relative union — constitutes the determination of the police, and, in a limited but concrete totality, the corporation.

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  1. Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827) Avatar
    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1827), § 532:

    § 532. The administration of justice has the determination of actualizing only the abstract side of freedom in civil society as a necessity, but this actualization rests, in the first instance, on the particular subjectivity of the judge, whose own necessary unity with right-in-itself is not yet present. Conversely, the blind necessity of the system of needs has not yet been raised into the consciousness of the universal and actualized from out of it.

  2. Hegel (Encyclopedia 1830) Avatar
    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1830)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1830), § 532:

    § 532. The administration of justice has the determination of actualizing only the abstract side of the freedom of the person in civil society as a necessity. But this actualization rests, in the first instance, on the particular subjectivity of the judge, since its own necessary unity with right-in-itself is not yet present here. Conversely, the blind necessity of the system of needs has not yet been raised into the consciousness of the universal and actualized from out of it.

  3. Eduard Gans (Additions) Avatar
    Eduard Gans (Additions)

    In civil society, universality is only necessity: within the relation of needs, only right as such is the fixed element. But this right, a merely restricted circle, relates only to the protection of what I have; to right as such, welfare is something external. This welfare, however, is an essential determination within the system of needs. The universal, then, which at first is only right, has to extend itself over the entire field of particularity. Justice is a great thing in civil society: good laws will make the state flourish, and free property is a fundamental condition of its splendor; but since I am wholly interwoven with particularity, I have a right to demand that, within this context, my particular welfare too be furthered. Regard is to be paid to my welfare, to my particularity, and this occurs through the police and the corporation.

  4. Hegel (Simple) Avatar
    Hegel (Simple)

    § 229: Beyond the court

    In civil society, everyone takes care of himself. The universal seems lost. In the court, it comes back. Here universal right and the single human being meet again.

    Is that enough?

    No. The court only protects what I have. My property, my person. Right as such does not care whether I am doing well.

    But I live deep inside this web of work and needs. So I have a right to demand care for my welfare too. Good laws and free property are a lot. But we need more.

    What follows?

    The universal must spread over the whole field of life. This happens in two ways. The police look after a wide field, but only externally. The corporation looks after a narrower circle, but fully.

    Summary: The court protects only property and person. But everyone also has a right that someone looks after his welfare. The police and the corporation take care of this.

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