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While Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit describes the process that allows consciousness to fully understand itself and so overcome its alienation, Hegel’s social philosophy uses the certainty the philosophical consciousness has won from its phenomenological development to describe the conditions required to allow the concrete individual to overcome his alienation from his social world.
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Rae, G. (2011). Hegel’s Social Philosophy: Abstract Right and Morality. In: Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348899_8
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