A CRITIQUE OF THE STATE AS A COMMUNITY OF PERSONS IN HEGEL
Abstract
This study was carried out to critique the state as a community of persons in Hegel. One of the objectives of the study was to evaluate how the Hegelian conception of the state fails to account for the specific state forms and process. The researcher adopted the doctrinal research method for the data analysis of the empirical literature. From the study it was concluded that Marx’s community of freedom is a transformed social world in which people are treated not as rights-bearing citizen consumers as ‘freely associated producers’ but in contrast, Hegel’s ‘community of freedom is the rational state, a political and juridical order whose members encounter one another primarily as citizens and bearers of rights’.
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