Hegel’s Groundwork of the Philosophy of Right is one of the most classical and influential works in modern legal and political philosophy. In it, he outlines a philosophy of objective spirit, partly drawing on earlier natural law and partly in response to the political and legal situation following the French Revolution and at the beginning of the Restoration period. Since its first publication in the winter of 1820/21, the Groundwork has been the subject of intense philosophical and political debates and has lost none of its urgency to this day.
Volume 3 contains the “Appendix”; it reveals the history of its development through the “Editorial Report” and, through the “Notes,” Hegel’s sources and the intellectual context of his philosophy of law. The index of persons includes all three volumes.
Simon Gros 
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