Ser uma pessoa, ser alguém. Os limites do institucionalismo hegeliano

It’s generally accepted that Hegel’s political philosophy is institucionalist to the extent that he is not satisfied with justifying the necessity of a political body and exposes its complex articulations with care and precision. While some authors, like Axel Honneth, for example, consider his institucionalism excessive, I think, otherwise, that Hegel’s interest for the concretude of institutions shows the force of his political philosophy. I argue that we can find in Principles of the Philosophy of Right, in two different levels, the traces of a discrete reflection on the limits of the institutionalizable: that of abstract right, object of the first section, and that of the ethical life, which occupies the second one.