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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the idea of a power state in Hegel’s Youth political philosophy and to find out its politico-philosophical significance. In this study, I focused on the analysis of the German Constitution and the Natural Law because these books typically represent the idea of a power state among Hegel’s Youth political philosophy books. First, in the analysis of the German Constitution I clarified Hegel’s critical analysis and its significance of the historical situations in Germany that were the background for the formation of the idea of a power state. The results of this analysis are as follows : Hegel viewed the reason why Germany was divided into several Lands without forming a single state as “German liberty” or “German stubbornness of character”, and he suggested the idea of ​​a power state that a power state could be formed only by restraining the formation of independent rights and powers of the various sectors in the state. And the concrete meaning of a power state envisioned by Hegel in the German Constitution refers to a single state established and maintained through actual and realistic power, such as political and military power. Second, in the analysis of the Natural Law, I elucidated the politico-philosophical significance of Hegel’s tragic historical consciousness which is exposed in the expression ‘tragedy in the ethical life’. The results of this analysis are as follows : Hegel interpreted Western history from ancient times to modern times as undergoing a process of “subjectification” in which the public consciousness in the ethical community was lost and the consciousness of the individual subjective rights was expanded, and he thought that the “absolute ethical life” could be saved only by “separating” them from itself or “suppressing” them through a state power. Finally, I critically analyzed the politico-philosophical limitations of Hegel’s state theory in his Youth. The results of this analysis are as follows : Hegel came to plan the new idea of a modern state in which state power and individual subjective rights are organically harmonized in his book Law Philosophy, because he recognized that a modern state could not be achieved simply by suppressing the subjectivity of modern society which became a historical necessity.