The State in Hegel's Concept

Abstract

Hegel is one of the first theorists of the modern state philosophy, based on two points: the first point (the dialectical principle), which means every change as a result of a conflict between contradictory cases, leads to the identification of a new image of a new state that is superior to its predecessor.

The dialectical contradiction was the central point in that logic, and a basic basis upon which a new understanding of the world rests, leading to the emergence of a new theory different from others.

Hegel's philosophy was known as the 'Perfectionism Philosophy', based on the theory of the inevitable development of history until reaching perfection, which was known as dialectics or Polemical.

As for the second point (the nation-state), his theory which led to a special meaning of the state, continued to distinguish the German theory during the nineteenth century AD, where the rulers and the ruled are subject to the law of reason. The state is (a reality that embodies a moral idea), rather it is (the mind in itself and for itself, the individual does not reach the (total mind), only through the people, and in the people the moral character is realized.

The Hegelian state is a totalitarian, national, ideological and bureaucratic state in form, but in essence it is interchangeable and variable by its own dialectic. Although it is conservative in terms of system and constitution, it is revolutionary in the nature of its powers and internal and external relations.