Law and Violence in Hegel (Introduction)
Christoph Menke & Benno Zabel
Hegel-Studien Band 57 (2024)

If we follow the methodical program of Hegel’s Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, then the only way to understand historical realities, of whatever kind, is as actualizations of rationally articulated normative principles, and – conversely and correspondingly – the only way to grasp the rationality of normative orders and practices, of whatever kind, is to understand them in the context of the specific historical shapes in which they came to be actualized; to be actual is to be rational, and to be rational is to be actual.

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