Notes to Chapter 2 { 29 7edition of the winter 1825 – 26 lectures. It is thus impossible to know from published sources
whether any given passage from Michelet’s composite text was delivered in the same form
(or at all) during the years when the Vereinler would have heard Hegel lecture on the topic
( 1819 or 1820 – 21 ). On the history of student transcripts from Hegel’s lectures on the his-
tory of philosophy, see Pierre Garniron and Friedrich Hogemann, “Hegels Vorlesungen zur
Geschichte der Philosophie.” There are two extant sources for the 1819 lectures, both of
which derive from a common source, and one for the 1820 – 21 lectures (ibid., 115 , 117 – 18 ).
However, there was great thematic continuity over the more than twenty-five-years that
Hegel lectured on the history of philosophy (ibid., 111 ), so we can be fairly certain that audi-
tors in 1819 and 1820 – 21 would have heard some iteration of the passages I quote here.
94. Hegel, TWA, 20 : 455. In translating passages from the TWA edition of Hegel’s Vo r-
lesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie, I have borrowed from the available English
translation by E. S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson (Hegel, Lectures on the History of Phi-
losophy). Their translation, however, is of Michelet’s shortened second ( 1840 ) edition and
thus differs from the text of the TWA edition, which is based on the first (see the previous
note).
95. Hegel, TWA, 20 : 456.
96. Ibid.
97. In the 1820 introduction to the history of philosophy lectures, which some of the
Vereinler surely heard, Hegel states that “the study of the history of philosophy is the study
of philosophy itself ” (ibid., 20 : 479 ).
98. In a similar vein, Hegel characterizes philosophy as “its own time comprehended in
thoughts” (PR, “Preface,” 21 ). See also PR, “Vorrede,” 26 .”
99. Hegel, TWA, 20 : 460.
100. Ibid., 20 : 461.
101. Hegel expresses this sentiment repeatedly. For example, he writes: “It is philosophi-
cal insight which recognizes that Church and state are not opposed to each other as far as
their content is concerned, which is truth and rationality, but merely differ in form” (PR §
299 ).
102. Hegel lectured on the philosophy of right based on the published “Grundriß” in
winter 1821 – 22 , 1822 – 23 , and 1824 – 25. His seventh set of lectures on the philosophy of right,
begun in 1831 , was cut short by his death. He first published on political philosophy in the
“Objective Spirit” section of his 1817 Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. He delivered
his Heidelberg and first two Berlin lectures on the topic under the title “Naturrecht und
Staatswissenschaft.” See Karl-Heinz Ilting’s six-volume edition of Vorlesungen über Recht-
sphilosophie for most of the extant notes and transcripts of Hegel’s philosophy of right lec-
tures 1818 – 31. For transcripts discovered since the publication of Ilting’s edition, see Dieter
Henrich’s edition of Philosophie des Rechts: Die Vorlesung von 1819 / 20 in einer Nachschrift;
Emil Angehrn, Martin Bondeli, and Hoo Nam Seelmann’s edition of Philosophie des Rechts,
mitgeschrieben von Johann Rudolf Ringier ( 1819 / 1820 ); and Hansgeorg Hoppe’s edition of
Die Philosophie des Rechts: Vorlesung von 1821 / 22.
103. Moses Moser, “Rede vor der Gründungsversammlung des Vereins für Cultur und
Wissenschaft der Juden,” November 7 , 1819 , ARC 4 792 /B 10 – 2 , Zunz Archive. For a sub-
stantial excerpt from this memo by Moser, see Ucko, “Geistesgeschichtliche Grundlagen,”
328 – 29 and 330 – 32.