http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220217-001238-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/hegel-on-anti-vaxxers-and-making-peace-with-the-law/ Hegel on Anti-Vaxxers and Making Peace with the Law Weber, Nico Roman eng 2022-02-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Recently, the German Parliament debated the question whether to mandate general inoculation. The supreme irony of this debate is that the minister of health invoked Hegel to argue in favour of a mandate. The irony does not lie in Hegel’s stance regarding mandatory vaccination – which he favoured much more explicitly than Lauterbach’s quotation suggested – but in the role that this government is attributing to law and politics.