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The Organic State1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

G. R. G. Mure
G. R. G. Mure
Affiliation:
Warden of Merton College, Oxford
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Is the State organic? Does it, or should it, in some way transcend the individual natures of its citizens, so as itself to be an individual more complete and of higher value than the singular individuals who compose it? Is it thus in some sense an organism, and are its citizens in some sense organs of it which gain for themselves a higher value and significance in subserving it?

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 24 , Issue 90 , July 1949 , pp. 205 - 218
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1949

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page 213 note 1 Cp. the two characteristics of the individual distinguished on p. 207 above.

page 214 note 1 Nor, incidentally, did the Nazis ever officially claim the authority of Hegel.