You're listening to The Parsley Examine Life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 387 is, how does law relate to society?

We're continuing our treatment of the Spirit chapter of Hegel's phenomenology of spirit,

now covering sections 464 through 483, which is subsection B, ethical action, human and divine knowledge,

guilt and destiny, plus subsection C, legal status.

This is Mark Lentemeyer declaring through my deeds that the ethical be actual in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, Lord of the World in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Saw One, still waiting to receive my due as a particular individuality in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

And this is Dylan Casey, stoically building an actual world by abstracting an intrinsic reality

in Madison, Wisconsin.

Seth chose his from the end of the section, the Lord, Lord of the world.

And mine I took from the very first sentence, shows you how well prepared I was to give up.

I did a set this time.

I forgot.

So I thought, even though we're starting officially on 464, and I should, right, three of us

recorded a part three to the previous episode that was only for supporters.

If you didn't hear that, you didn't miss anything.

I mean, we went into more detail, but we've already told the

basic story, which is how law is interpreted in two ways, right, that makes up spirit, the so-called

divine law and the human law. And on rethinking this, I was thinking, maybe we should sort of

start with this as a review topic. I was thinking divine law,

both of these actually come from the cultural zeitgeist, right? But he talks about divine law as the

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