What is Hegel’s view on the connection between government and bureaucracy?
-Hegel stressed a shared culture, myths etc. He was a Prussian, not German patriot. For Hegel, the state was symbolized by the king, and to a certain extent by the army, but not by bureaucracy. The Monarchy was not a constitutional monarchy; here lies the problem of the liberal state. • What is the relationship between the state and the community of affinity? -Hegel’s state is not Rousseau’s state, the town meeting where consensus reigns once authority is removed. Hegel’s state is a state of authority, a hierarchy of authority, not an utopia of economic equality. There is no conflict between the rule of law, authority, and executive power. • Is there equality in Hegel’s state? -Only insofar as he wants abolition of the division of labor, not abolishment of authority. But that is all. Hegel was no precursor of Socialism; he only wanted more meaningful labor. Socialism was a French phenomenon, and Marx had to go to France to learn Socialism. Hegel continued Locke’s tradition of solving t
