ABSTRACT
Hegel's organicism rejected the possibility of a complete dissolution of ties and relations between men and nations. Hegel grants the reality of personal, inner freedom, Luther's freedom of the soul. But freedom to be organic must be objectified, the impersonal responsibility of a nonsectarian institution. Hegel represented the idea of freedom as organically related to the political state, and to the inevitable unfolding of a Weltgeschichte which makes certain the attainment of absolute truth. The task of Hegel, or at least one of his tasks, was to create a new synthesis that preserved the Rousseauian "general will," but placed it within a context of world systems and ideals. Hegel was compelled to satisfy the requirements of his idealism by ultimately conceiving of freedom metaphysically, as "absolute self-security and self-repose". The identification Hegel makes between personal will and the will of the state was considered a necessary curative to the flaws in civil society.
