Hegel discusses in 360 paragraphs: the relationship between the natural and positive environment, the difference between explanation and justification of legal institutions, the autonomy of the will, the symbolic and practical aspects of property, ethics from the perspective of the other as morality, the stages of moral awareness, the foundations and mechanisms of civil society.

It analyzes the system of needs and the management of opinions through politics, social welfare and advertising, class conflicts and the standardization of labor, the issue of the presence of laws in written text or customary narrative, the critique of the judicial function and the evaluation of the institution of jurors.

It examines the secularization and the role of the church, the ways of staffing the Parliament and selecting the highest ruler, the conditions for influencing public opinion and the fluidity of international relations, the logical and historical epochs of international relations, the logical and historical epochs of law and culture.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]