La comprensión hegeliana de la idea de la libertad de las escuelas helenísticas

Abstract

The aim of this work is not the direct study of the hellenistic doctrines and their idea of freedom, but rather the way those ancient doctrines were collected and interpreted by Hegel. We analyse in particular the discussion that Hegel develops about them in the Phenomenology of mind and in the Lessons about the history of philosophy. The end of that form of equilibrium of life achieved in the ancient polis is interpreted by Hegel like the transition to an age, in which the self-‐‑consciousness looses the practical and rational harmony with external world and feels the need of looking for rationality inward itself, in its separated of world individuality. In this way the individual doesn’t experience the union with its social environment any more, which is now an upon it imposing empire and an abstract general power.