Il primo commentario ai Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto e la critica di K. M. Kahle al Diritto astratto di Hegel

Despite its being the very first commentary on Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Karl Moritz Kahle’s Darstellung und Critik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie, published in 1845, has been widely ignored so far. While introducing it to the attention of the scholars, this article focuses on its remarks on Part one of the Elements («Abstract Right»). Kahle reads it on the basis of his view of Hegel’s philosophy as a worsened development of Fichte’s thought. He then has objections to almost every step Hegel makes: on the concept of right, on the partition of Objective Spirit, on property, contracts, tort and crime, and on the justification of punishment. Kahle’s remarks depend largely on his legal education, but interestingly enough some of them aim to offer a better dialectical inference than Hegel’s own one