HEGEL

The Philosophy of Right is Hegel''s most mature statement of his legal moral social and political philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can only realize itself in the complicated social context of property rights and relations contracts moral commitments family life the economy the legal system and the polity. A person is not truly free in other words unless he is a participant in all of these different aspects of the life of the state.The Philosophy of Law is an essay in which Hegel explains the fundamentals of legal philosophy. Hegel''s philosophy of law is best understood as a natural law theory.