In the series of extracts that I am running from my almost-finished book on the history of moral thought, I have reached Chapter 13, which looks at the moral ideas of Hegel, Rousseau and Marx, and at the historicisation of ideas of human nature and morality. This extract is taken from the section on Hegel, Rousseau and the debate about freedom and ‘self-realization’.

Categories: History of moral thought • Tags: bradley, conservatism, democracy, edmund burke, hegel, history of moral thought, hobbes, human nature, morality, right hegelians, rousseau, young hegelians