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- General introduction to Hegel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
- Number in the title of the post= paragraph of the “Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts” by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
- Individual paragraphs can be accessed by directly entering the Internet address (e.g. http://grundlinien.de/en/2 for paragraph 2).
The authority for this edition is Hegel’s first printing of 1820. The German text was transcribed from the Suhrkamp Werkausgabe (vol. 7) but checked throughout against the first printing; where the two diverge, the first printing stands. Its page numbers run through the text. This English version is a translation of that German text — what that means for quotation, and what has and has not been checked, is set out on On the Text of this Edition. The concordance of page numbers sets the first edition’s pagination beside that of the Werkausgabe.
Remarks and Comments
- The indented passages in the posts are the “remarks” added by Hegel to the printed edition.
- The comments of “G.W.F. Hegel” are the handwritten notes from Hegel’s own copy (up to ca. § 180).
- The comments of “Eduard Gans” are the “additions” compiled by the same.
- The comments by Homeyer, Wannenmann, etc. are those from their lecture notes.
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The posts are additionally tagged with one of the labels “Concept,” “Actualization,” or “Transition”:
- “Concept” marks paragraphs that develop the relevant concept (e.g. of the will, property, duty) in purely conceptual terms.
- “Actualization” marks paragraphs that apply this concept to concrete institutions and practices.
- “Transition” marks the few paragraphs in which Hegel himself passes from one sphere to the next.
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About this Site
The English and Spanish translations were produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed editorially. The German text is authoritative. Details under On the Text of this Edition.
“Only that which is completely determined is at the same time exoteric, graspable, and capable of being learned and becoming the property of all. The understanding of science is the path to it offered to everyone and made equal for all; and to attain reasonable knowledge through the understanding is the legitimate demand of consciousness that joins with science; for the understanding is thinking, the pure ‘I’ as such; and understanding is what is already familiar and common to both science and unscientific consciousness, through which the latter is enabled to enter directly into the former.”
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface