The metaphysical theory of the state a criticism /

• Main Author: Hobhouse, L. T. 1864-1929.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge revivals.
• Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831 > Political and social views.; State, The.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > National. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.; Electronic books.
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Originally published in 1918, this enduring work by renowned sociologist and Liberal politician Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse encompasses a series of five key lectures, first delivered at the London School of Economics in the autumn of 1917. Outlining Hobhouse's theories on social investigation, fr...

Table of Contents:

• The objects of social investigation
• Freedom and law
• The real will
• The will of the state
• Varying applications of the metaphysical theory
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Hegel's theory of the will
• The theory of the absolute.