Scholars have recently argued that Hegel posited international recognition as a necessary feature of relations. My main effort in this article is to disprove point. Specifically, I show since rejected the notion an legal system, he must hold depends on arbitrary will individual states. To pinpoint Hegel’s position, offer close reading intricate formulations from final paragraphs Philosophy Righ...

We ignore the history of philosophy at our peril. Engels, who typically conflates Marx and Marxism, points to relation Marxism tradition while also denying it. In his little book on Feuerbach, Engels depicts Feuerbach as leading away from Hegel, classical German philosophy, towards materialism science. This view suggests that is best negatively related Classical including Hegel. Yet elsewhere b...