THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE METAPHYSICAL IN HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT

摘要

Though there have been a variety of valuable studies of the interrelationship of Hegelian metaphysics and politics, the philosophical problem of the universal11 and its becoming, one which Hegel witnesses in the Logic as originating with Eleatic "Being," has not been integrated into the mapping of his political thought.12 Hegel's primary quest to fully articulate the transformation of being out of itself- a project initiated out of "being" as the preliminary phase of both the major and minor works on logic - and the need to subsequently restore this universality through dialectical change so as to sustain a self-contained and selfgenerating conception of being13 should not be set aside in our estimations of Hegel's politics. With few exceptions, the contemporary literature has largely skirted this influential presence of the dialectic in his politics and is lead by those who primarily restrict themselves to Hegel the political thinker with only a side-glance to his foundational conceptual framework.14 For the most part, the coverage of the actual intertwining of the political and metaphysical in Hegel has played at the theoretical surface of the concomitant project within Hegel's political program which seeks to respond to the philosophical dilemma of transformation, "becoming," in order to preserve the value of universal ideas for his system.