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Free Thinking: Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Hegel's Philosophy of Right

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Anne McElvoy listens out for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel

Seán Williams, Christoph Schuringa, Gary Browning, and Alison Stone join Anne McElvoy to consider Hegel's philosophy of freedom and links with Beethoven.

What links Beethoven & Hegel's philosophy of freedom?  Anne McElvoy talks to New Generation Thinker Seán Williams, Christoph Schuringa, Gary Browning, and Alison Stone about Hegel's discussion of freedom, law, family, markets and the state in his Principles of the Philosophy of Right 1820. 

Dr Christoph Schuringa is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities in London 
Gary Browning is Professor in Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University
Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University
Seán Williams is Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History at the University of Sheffield

You can find a playlist of programmes examining various philosophical themes on the Free Thinking website  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x0twx 


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