Hegel e Rawls

Hegel and Rawls seem to be two scarcely compatible authors, the first being a critic of the social contract and of Kantian morality, the second being a neocontractualist and a reassertor of Kantian moral constructivism; the former being a speculative philosopher, the latter being an analytically trained philosopher. The first impression, however, can be misleading and the reading of Rawls’s works reveal an interest and a respect for Hegel as one would not have imagined: Hegel as a philosopher of reconciliation and the social rootedness of morality. With what reliability, on the theoretical and historical level, remains at least in part to be established.