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(2015) Philosophy of justice, Dordrecht, Springer.
For Hegel, the ultimate foundation of right is spirit. Spirit essentially consists of self-knowledge. In Isaiah Berlin's critique of Hegel, the view that there is a true self (spirit) that can be known rationally is connected to an anti-pluralist, potentially totalitarian standpoint. Charles Taylor has argued successfully against that there is such a connection. This opens up for reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right that both includes a fully fledged concept of spirit and is sensitive to pluralist concerns. Such a reading not only gives a better representation of the historical Hegel, but is also points to his contemporary relevance.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9175-5_14
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Sparby, (2015)., Hegel and the foundation of right, in G. Fløistad (ed.), Philosophy of justice, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 239-256.
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