The philosophical theory of the state is an important part of Hegel’s political philosophy. In Philosophy of Right, the idea of right is freedom; the state is the embodiment of concrete freedom; the idea of freedom is in truth nothing but the state. The state, in which both individual independence and universal substantivity are found in gigantic union, is the realized ethical idea or ethical spirit, and the highest substantive ethical universal. The absolutely rational state is the ethical whole and the march of God in the world; as the true meaning and ground of the family and the civic community, it is not the phenomenon but the idea of the ethical spirit. Hegel’s state is both rational and violent, so it has the inclination of totalitarianism.