Hegel on Ethics, the State and Public Policy

Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Toronto, where he taught from 1963 to 1998. He is the author of studies of the economics of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Robert Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Say, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and of A History of Utilitarian Ethics (Routledge 2020) and Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics (Routledge 2022). He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France (CNRS), 1999–2000.

• Introduction 1. Personal Ethics 2. The State and Civil Society 3. The Political State 4. Political Economy and Public Policy 5. On Ethical Progress 6. An Overview, and Hegel in the Prussian Context Appendix A: On Professor Brudner’s Interpretation of Hegelian Philosophy Appendix B: On Karl Marx’s ‘Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law [Right]’