ABSTRACT
Hegel’s third history of the West is concerned with politics, with the individual’s relation to the state. It begins (and almost ends) with what he calls the ‘ethical’ or ‘happy’ state (PS 444-83). Hegel indicates that the reference, here, is to the ancient world (PS 390). Fairly clearly, I think, it is to the tribal society of Homeric and pre-Homeric Greece.
