An article on the history of civil society

A book titled "An Essay on the History of Civil Society" by Adam Ferguson, published by the Arab Organization for Translation. This book discusses the history of civil society and assumes that the idea of civil society in its technical sense is familiar to readers in European and American countries in general, not in Arab countries. Words like people and society (without specification) and the public are more common. Therefore, the book defines civil society using the concepts of the German philosopher Hegel, who was the first to employ this expression in its specific dialectical technical meaning. Hegel applied his dialectical reasoning to society and its history, stating that there are: family ← civil society ← state, and that the most important characteristics of the family (or families) are that its members work for the benefit of the common families. When the young members of the family grow up and leave it, they enter the public arena of the nation or environment to form what is called civil society, which forms the state to impose order and work for the general public interest.