Stephen Houlgate | Civil Society and its Discontents: Hegel ... Poverty ... and the Modern State

◼️ Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)
Civil Society and its Discontents: Hegel and the Problem of Poverty in the Modern State

Third session of day 2 of the online conference "Hegel's Philosophy of Right: A Conference in Honor of Terry Pinkard" (which took place globally Oct. 15 - 17, 2021).

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[orthodoxhegelian]

00:40 - Starts
01:35 - General Remarks on Hegel's Philosophy of Right
05:07 - Three main causes of poverty
07:06 - Civil society is governed by understanding
09:46 - The cause of systematic poverty
11:10 - Corporations
13:30 - Civil society without corporations and bad infinity
15:00 - Civil society with corporations and true infinity
16:24 - Corporations and the problem of overproduction
17:00 - Hegel's main solution to poverty lies on corporation, not in the political state
20:55 - The role of corporations
22:50 - End of lecture and questions

[paulcaron-wmtk]

Corporations as described differ from the modern form of 'limited liability' companies, and seem to resemble what I would call 'worker owned cooperatives' such as the Mondragon Corporation in Basque Spain. The monopoly capitalist form of corporation is very far away and very difficult to transform into a cooperative model. But one way or another, it is the direction history is tending as the determinate negation of the present corporate model.

[thespiritofhegel]

Interesting. I didn't quite follow that bit about MPs representing the 'interests' of their constituents rather than going by the numbers who voted for them. Who is to decide what those 'interests' are then and which are the most important 'interests'? I voted for Brexit and I see our victory as the UK coming to the rescue of Europe once again in dark times..