Hegel : um liberal-comunitarista?

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that it is possible to make a liberal interpretation of Hegel's political work, characterizing the philosopher as a liberal-communitarianist. A dialectical reading of liberalism, to disrupt the exclusionary dualism between liberals and communitarianists, allows one to understand liberalism not as an a priori doctrine, but as a product of the historical development of human experience in community. It is to defend that individual freedom, so dear to the liberal doctrine, does not contradict the communitarian condition of the constitution of subjectivity, but it is from the very intersubjectivity that individual freedom becomes actual as a fundamental category of law, and, thus, of politics. The taking of the Philosophy of Right, from the logical modalities in the Science of Logic, will understand the conservation of the Abstract Right and of Morality in the Ethical Life, just as it will conceive not only the conservation of the family and of civil society in the State, but also its status as the essence and endorsement of political institutions. This will be the pivot of the understanding that liberalism itself cannot be taken away from its communitarian actualization, being civil society the space of particularity, of private interest, of needs, of work and of culture, and being it the determinant sphere of conditions and circumstances for the emergence of universal political institutions.