The author's purpose is to understand the philosophical foundations
of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at
work in his claim that the three central social institutions of the
modern era--the nuclear family, civil society, and the
constitutional state--are rational or good. Its central question
is: what, for Hegel, makes a rational social order rational? In
addressing this question the book aspires to be faithful to Hegel's
texts and to articulate a compelling theory of rational social
institutions; its aim is not only to interpret Hegel correctly but
also to demonstrate the richness and power that his vision of the
rational social order possesses.
Frederick Neuhouser's task is to understand the conceptions of
freedom on which Hegel's theory rests and to show how they ground
his arguments in defense of the modern social world. In doing so,
the author focuses on Hegel's most important and least understood
contribution to social philosophy, the idea of "social
freedom."
Neuhouser's strategy for making sense of social freedom is to
show its affinities with Rousseau's conception of the general will.
The main idea that Hegel appropriates from Rousseau is that
rational social institutions must satisfy two conditions: first,
they must furnish the basic social preconditions of their members'
freedom; and, second, all social members must be able subjectively
to affirm their freedom-conditioning institutions as good and thus
to regard the principles that govern their social participation as
coming from their own wills.
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