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State by Hege;

The political state is as the third moment of ethical life. It provides a synthesis between the principles governing the family and those governing the civil society.
Example: Family--- private property
“Since the state is mind of objectified, it is only as one of its members that the individual has objectivity genuine individuality and as ethical life and the individuals destiny is the living of a universal life.”

The Idea of State:

the idea of state is divided into three moments

A. Constitutional law:

  1. The constitution has two types of form
  • Universality
  • Particularity
    • Poverty, Religion
Constitutional law has 3 moments
a)The crown: the power of crown is divided into three moments
  • The universality of the constitution and the laws. 
  • Counsel-who particulars to the universal.
  • The moments of ultimate decision.
 b) The Executives: they are executing and applying the decisions
“This task of merely subsuming the particular under universal is comprised in the executive power, which also includes the power of the judiciary and the police.”

c) The legislature: According to Hegel, the legislature is concerned.
  • With the laws as much in so far as they require fresh and extended determination.
  • With the consent home affairs affecting the entire state.

2. Sovereignty vis-à-vis foreign stale

It is Self-consciousness. This is called the organic. In this system, particularly individuals consciously pursue the universal ends of the state.

B. The International Law: 

International law springs from relations between autonomous states. It is for this reason that what is absolute in it relations the form of ought to be, since its actuality depends on different wills. Each of which is sovereign.

C. World History: 

world history is necessary development, out of the concepts of minds freedom alone of the moments of reason and so of the self-consciousness freedom of mind.
  • The oriental realm: mind in its immediate substance.
  • The Greek Realm: Mind is the simple unity of subjective and objective.
  • The Roman Realm: mind in its abstract universality.
  • The German Realm: Reconciled unity of subjective and objective mind.