Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant

Hegel: Freedom

Does Hegel have a coherent conception of freedom?

Essay of no more than 2,500 words.

Primary sources

• Hegel, G. W. F.: Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Oxford University Press Past Masters translation, electronic edition.Introduction, §§257–260.
• Hegel, G. W. F.: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publisherpp. 25, 44, 47ff., 60, 68ff., 73–76, 80ff.

Secondary sources

• Neuhouser, Frederick 2000. Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 in Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. DOI
• Patten, Alan 1999. Chapter 2: Freedom as Rational Self-Determination, in Hegel’s Idea of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI

General introductions

• Beiser, Frederick C. 2005. Hegel. London: Routledge. DOI
• Beiser, Frederick C. (ed.) 1993. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Taylor, Charles 1975. Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI