Keywords: freedom, ethics, pathology, justice
The present work aims to point out the proximities possible distances between freedom in the understanding of Hegel in the Principle of Philosophy of Law and its re-updating promoted by Honneth in Suffering from Indeterminacy. For this, we divide it into two main parts: 1) the first is intended to examine separately the understanding of freedom in Hegel's philosophy of law and Honneth's Suffering from indeterminacy; 2) in the second, we will approach the main points of intersection between the understanding of the two authors, as well as the points of distance. Hegel based the realization of freedom in ethics (Sittlichkeit), without failing to show the need for this freedom to pass through law and morality, taking the opportunity to show its limits in these spheres, thus promoting a critique of the Kantian understanding. Honneth departs from this structure presented by Hegel, not only to reveal the pathologies of freedom, but also to form his own theory of justice and normative reconstruction, entering the contemporary debate between communitarians and liberals. It arises from these points that call the attention of society: and from the approach of Hegel's approach to civil society and the state; the weaknesses of Honneth's theory of justice and its normative reconstruction; the amplification of the understanding of freedom and the pathologies of freedom.