Hegel's dialectic in political philosophy of Sergius Hessen

This paper is devoted to analyses of the context of Sergius Hessen's political philosophy and philosophy of law. Sergius Hessen is known as a participant of Russian Neo-Kantian philosophy. The framework of Hessen's philosophy has raised from Southwest Neo-Kantian school's axiology. Hessen has used comparison of Neo-Kantian value and fact in his significant works. Essential terms of themselves political and social philosophy (like notions of "tradition" and the "purpose-task") influenced of Rickert's culture philosophy. Development of culture had presented as process of deploying values. This approach to actualization of cultural and historic data like a continuity of implementation of values is the essential principle of Hessen's philosophy of history. Dialectics is a crucial concept for clarify comprehension of social progress Hessen's. He supposed, that dialectical method of Hegel is the medium to depiction of continuously of social progress. Russian Neo-Kantian thinker has used Hegel's dialectical triad (from abstract via negative to concrete) for explain the process of development of socialism and the legal state. He defined three steps of developing of socialism: level of abstractive negation of liberalism, level of concrete negation of liberalism, and level of assertoric negation of liberalism. Sergius Hessen recognized social progress as dialectical process; he shared Hegel's meaning to contradiction and negation as principles of actualization of value's condition in reality. This decision helps him to show evolution of idea of freedom. One of the main criteria of freedom development is extension of realm of personal rights. Thereby Hessen has used dialectics of Hegel's philosophy for structuration of own philosophy of history and philosophy of law. Summing up, this paper proves, that progress of culture in Hessen's philosophy is a process of deploying condition of values (in the sense of Southwest Neo-Kantian's philosophy), which occurs in pattern of triad of dialectics of Hegel.

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