Which of the following features of Hegel's Theory of State are correct (i) State is a super-organism. (ii) It is "The march of God on Earth". (iii) It is an end in itself. (iv) It is unchecked by any moral law, for it itself is the creator of morality. Choose the correct answer from the code given below :?

Option 4 : (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Hegel's theory of the state is his most important contribution to political philosophy.

• State theory is based on the axiom that "what is rational is real, and what is real is rational."
• Hegel's theory of the state is built on the essential premise of Reason, Spirit, or the Absolute Idea gradually emerging through a dialectical process. 
• A state is a super-organism in which no individual has preferences that are distinct from those of the larger unit.
• Hegel's conception of the state is a goal in itself, not a means to an end.
• He argued that "all the worth which tile human being I possesses-all spiritual reality-he possesses only through the State". 
• For him, The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. 
• The state is divine, people have no rights outside of or against the state because the state is the fountain of rights.

Thus, features of Hegel's Theory of State are state is a super-organism that is following the march of God on Earth,  it is an end in itself and unchecked by any moral law as it itself is the creator of morality.

• Hegel was a product of German Idealism, which drew influence from Rousseau and Kant and combined it with a popular desire for German unification, resulting in the birth of European nation-states. 
• Major writing of Hegel
  • The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).
  •  Science of Logic (1811-12).
  • Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817)
  • Philosophy of Right (1820)
  •  Philosophy of History(1837)