POL 3102 Lecture 6: POL 3102 – Lecture #6

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3102
• Professor: Wolfgang Koerner

Document Summary

The philsophy of right is his great, major political work. In previous writings, hegel studied the history of religion in the ancient world (greek, roman, jewish history, etc. ) The notion of sichlicheit is central to (egel"s philosophy of right and his basis of. Hegel emerges as a religious optimist he believed that christianity had take responsibility for their behavior and act ethically in the world one is. (e argued this was especially true if one adhered to (cid:498)the religion of. Jesus(cid:499) and christianity he distinguishes between the actual the potential to become a folk religion (i. e. a public religion that everyone could adhere to) He wants to suggest that christianity is a religion that asks individuals to judged by actions, not just beliefs/piety, meaning that christianity could influence political institutions teachings of jesus/other prophets (which he argued was a religion of. Hegel believes in the importance of morals and values, not really organized, established religion.