This major addition to the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and the metaphysical aspects of Hegel`s political thought.The ethical and metaphysical texts in this collection both illuminate and contrast with those political and histwrical texts in which Hegel draws important conchusions about the modern world from remarable comparative analysis of recent developments in England,France and Germany.the translator of these texts,H.B.Nisbet ,wasresponsible forthe acclaimed rendition of Hegel`s Philosophy of Right already published in this series ,and Laurence Dickey`s lucid editorial commentary introduces thisdistinctive corpus of political writing by one of the very greatest thinkers inEuropean tradition.A full chronology,explanatory annotation,glossary and bibliography are appended to aid the student reader.

Editor`s note

General introduction

Chronology of Hegel`s life and carrer

Translator`s preface

List of abbreviations

THE TEXTS

The Magistrates should be Electec by the People

The German Constitution

On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law,on its Place in Practical Philosophy,and its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Right

Inaugral Address,Delivered at te University of Berlin

Address on the Tercentenary the Submission of the Augsburg Confession

Lectures on the Philosophy of History

The Relationship of Religion to the State

On the English Reform Bill

Editorial notes

Glossary

Bibliography of works cited in this edition

Index of names

Index of subjects