ABSTRACT
The metaphysical problem of universals becomes political in consideration of the modern tensions and ambiguities of political belonging. The universal and its political relationship to the particular is mediated and synchronized through this historical framework in Hegel's logic of the dialectic and its realization of concrete freedom. In the development of freedom towards its consummation in the state, Hegel conceives of civil society as a mid-ground. Hegel's transition to civil society represents the developmental maturation of the ethical concept into a fuller, self-subsistent and objective form that is a concrete society of familial persons. The spheres or moments of a modern society-family, civil society and state-must necessarily be internally differentiated so as to accommodate the absolute demands of subjective particularity in freedom. The Philosophy of Right is herein intended as the explication of the inherent rationality of the idea of right, and no mere theorization out of a subjective concept.
