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[Anonymous No.13803258]

Ive read plenty of Marxist/socialist criticism of liberalism and democracy, im now looking for criticism of liberal fundaments from the right/far right. Pic related

[Anonymous No.13803320]

Joseph de Maistre
Giovanni Gentile
Arguably people like Pareto and Mosca (not really "right" or "left")
Alain de Benoist
Hegel in a way
Fichte in a way
I'll throw in Sorel too (even though he was a syndicalist, his writings were influential among fascists)
Vico i guess too
divine right of kings guys like Filmer (a bit early to directly critique liberalism)

[Anonymous No.13803601]

>>13803320
>Hegel in a way
How

[Anonymous No.13803743]

>>13803601
Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

[Anonymous No.13803755]

Reality.

[Anonymous No.13803878]

>>13803601
Hegel, at least in the Philosophy of Right, creates a very different conception of freedom and liberty than that of liberalism. Hegel considers freedom as something which develops in stages as it realises itself in the world. The absolute freedom of the individual (which is similar to the traditional liberal view) is seen as the first and incomplete stage of freedom; " The man in the street thinks he is free if it is open to him to act as he pleases, but his very arbitrariness implies that he is not free". Freedom develops further when it is situated in an ethical community. This is a community of moral agents whose freedom is realised in the form of duties which he has as a result of his position in society; "Thus duty is not a restriction on freedom, but only on freedom in the abstract, i.e. on unfreedom. Duty is the attainment of our essence, the winning of positive freedom". The free agent only has freedom insofar as other free actors recognise him as such—freedom is presented a relational concept, not a purely atomistic one. due to this idea, the most basic unit of political life is not the individual, but the family, as the family represents the first set of duties and restrictions the free will encounters, the foundation of common life. The highest freedom is realised in the political community, which Hegel seems to view as a coherent ethical group similar to the Greek polis, but which carries its own sacrifices to individual action is service to "true" self determination. Hegel's actual prescriptions for what this political community turns out to be should be taken less seriously (surprise! it's the Prussian state!). So i put him there because of his criticism of conventional liberal views of freedom. Though Hegel himself can't really be considered "right/far right" (which is why i added "in a way"), this idea of freedom was more influential in later right leaning authors than left leaning.

At least, that's my understanding of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. I'm a neophyte when it comes to Hegel and don't know much of his complete philosophic system, so i could be (and probably am) wrong on a few points.