Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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What links Beethoven & Hegel's philosophy of freedom? Anne McElvoy talks to New Generation Thinker Seán Williams, Christoph Schuringa, Gary Browning, and Alison Stone about Hegel's discussion of freedom, law, family, markets and the state in his Principles of the Philosophy of Right 1820.
Dr Christoph Schuringa is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities in London Gary Browning is Professor in Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University Seán Williams is Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History at the University of Sheffield
You can find a playlist of programmes examining various philosophical themes on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x0twx
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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| 1:27.5 | The Owl of Minerva flies at dusk, so says Hegel, in the preface to his magisterial |
| 1:33.5 | work of moral and political philosophy, elements of the philosophy of right. |
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