Part of thread: The concrete universal
The state as concrete universal
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The state is not an abstract contract between pre-existing individuals. It is the whole in which individuals are moments. Their particular interests are taken up into the universal—not suppressed, but given their proper place. That is why Hegel can say the state is the actuality of freedom: in it, the rational will is objectified and recognised.
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
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- The state as concrete universal/u/averrois
The state as the concrete universal in which particularity is preserved and elevated in the Philosophy of Right.
- Abstract vs concrete in the tradition/u/averrois
Aristotle and the tradition: how Hegel's concrete universal relates to earlier notions of the universal.