TY - JOUR AU - Horn, Christoph PY - 2022/07/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Hegel’s Concept of Right JF - ETHICS IN PROGRESS JA - eip VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - Core topics-related articles DO - 10.14746/eip.2022.1.3 UR - https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/34813 SP - 24-40 AB - <p>This article examines the foundations for the legitimacy of law from the perspective of Hegel’s philosophy. In a first step, Kant’s justification of law is discussed, as Hegel takes the Kantian model as a central point of (critical) reference. Then, in the Section 2, I discuss Hegel’s reasons for rejecting the main strategies of justification of the legal order: natural law, contractarianism and legal positivism. This is further followed by a discussion of the meaning and scope of Hegel’s contextualism, according to which there can be no practical normativity without a certain historical embedding. Finally, I describe a more traditional met-aphysical reading (supported among others by Kevin Thompson) that I consider to be the correct solution, contrasting it with Honneth’s theory of recognition and Bran-dom’s pragmatism. </p> ER -