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1 Doctoral student of Public Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2 Professor of Public Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
In the conventional approach to constitutional law in Iran, the constitution is considered either an abstract and definable concept or a legal document. This perspective presupposes a civil society and a state based on a mechanical approach. In contrast, in Hegel’s absolute idealism, the constitution is regarded as the foundational principles of an organic state, realized within the context of ethical life (Sittlichkeit). In Hegel’s view, ethical life is not a mechanical phenomenon; rather, it is a dynamic process through which an incomplete unity becomes determinate and structured. The organic development moves from unity to plurality and from plurality back to unity within plurality, shaping the multiple and diverse institutions of civil society into a coherent state. In Hegel’s system of thought, the organic state is not merely a political institution or a governing structure but an evolved organism, representing the final stage in the historical development of Spirit. This organic growth process elevates the constitution, as the foundational principles of the state, from a formal and abstract concept to a historically realized and concrete idea.
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