The immediate reason for publishing this outline1) is the need to provide my students with a guide for the lectures that I deliver, in accordance with my office, on the Philosophy of Right. This textbook is a further, and especially more systematic, development of the same basic concepts that are already contained regarding this part of philosophy in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (Heidelberg 1817)2) which I otherwise use for my lectures.
1) Given my critique of the word ‘outline’ for the main title, it might seem a glaring contradiction that I retain the traditional translation of “Grundriss” as “outline” here (and for the work’s subtitle “Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse”: “Natural Right and the Science of the State in Outline“). To be consistent with our architectural metaphor, Grundriss ought to be translated as Ground Plan—the two-dimensional map of the completed structural totality. However, for the sake of clarity and to avoid overburdening the text with terminological changes, I have chosen to retain the conventional translation for “Grundriss” as “outline”.
2) The paragraphs specified by Hegel always refer to this 1st (out of 3) edition(s).
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