ABSTRACT
This section discusses how to reconstruct the hierarchy of specifications so that it better fulfils Hjelmslev's 'empirical principle'.
Hegel's state subject, as well as the concepts derived from it, has been developed on the basis of the Aristotelian problematique; it took its form in order to solve the previous problems; and the state subject concept has itself been the very prerequisite to the creation of a perspective for new recognition of problems which demand that it be refined further. Behind the problems which Hegel localised, and for which he attempted to provide entirely new solutions, lay a broad field, encompassing not just that of natural law, but also that of economic theorists, the Enlightenment philosophers, and the German Romanticists' concepts of totality. Among the major features of these solutions are (1) that the theories of economy, law, civilisation, and culture are integrated into a theory of the state, (2) that the political theory is transformed from the naked, universal categories into a concrete and cultural historical theory, (3) that classificatory object-concepts are transformed into dialectical relations and terminal concepts, and (4) that the concept of Reason is transformed into a cultural historical self-reflexive mode of analysis.
