ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to sketch the argument that could be made for seeing democratic monarchy logically as an integral element of a comprehensive theory. According to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, all the specific categories and actualities of Reason have the moments of “generality”, “particularity”, and “singularity”. Hegel uses Moment more widely to signify a distinguishable feature or aspect which is an inseparable constituent of a larger totality. As a “system”, Hegel’s philosophy is a reflexive hierarchy of general statements or conceptions. Hegel seems to use “the particular” or “particularity’’ to refer to items of reality which are, so to speak, below the bottom of the hierarchy of generality. The justification for democratic monarchy largely follows the interpretation of why Hegel claimed that constitutional monarchy offers the most “rational” set of arrangements.
