December 4, 2005
Hegel understands the abstract right of liberalism as the sphere of the legal personality concerned with the external actions of individuals insofar as they impede on the external freedom of others. It is a formal right that is divorced from morality and ethical considerations.
The legal personality is also abstract and coincides with the natural being of the individual.
Is this not the understanding of freedom of the neo-liberalism of the New Right at the Institute of Public Affairs who define the New Right and its agenda of the efficiency of markets, a distrust of government intervention in the economy? Their policy agenda was one freeing the labour market, eliminating tariff protection, privatisation of state-owned assets, applying competition to government services and reducing the size of government, to create the abstract right of freedom.
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