"The family is the first ethical root of the state; the corporation is the second, and it is based in civil society. The former contains the moments of subjective particularity and objective universality in substantial unity; but in the latter, these moments, which in civil society are at first divided into the internally reflected particularity of need and satisfaction and abstract legal universality, are inwardly united in such a way that particular welfare is present as a right and is actualized within this union."

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Written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

Pp 152-154 Knox, T. M. (1975). Hegel's Philosophy of Right. London: Oxford University Press.