Hegel's sense of civil society was independent of the state.

It included those dimensions of social life

which can't be compounded with or swallowed up in the state, fighting for open spaces of freedom and
was expressed as a program of building independent forms of social life from below free from state.

Taylor's claims of civil society already existing in the west and civil society to be formed as a result of
historical developments in the west is related with the western traditions.

He has given three different sense of civil society which was

1. the minimal sense that is a civil society where there is free associations not under tulage of State
Power.

2. The strongest sense where in a civil society, 'the society' itself as a whole can be structured and
coordinated through its actions being free from the state tulage.

3. civil society that would inflect the course of State policy ensemble the associations and significantly
determine it.

in a course of time the distinction between civil society and state arose and that and that caused
tensions and differences. the mediaeval notion of the society was prevalent in the west where a society
wasn't defined in terms of its political organisations but the notion that developed in the early middle
ages in terms of political authority.

The other was the development of the central idea that Church was an independent society which
developed in Latin Christendom. Here people was organised into two societies one of which was
temporary and the other was spiritual and both of them was need a subordinate to the other nor
respective to the areas of influence and authority. the development of a legal notion of subjective rights
in the mediaeval sovereigns faced a society which was partly defined as a tangle of rights and duties.
Also the existence of relatively independent self-governing cities brought about the standard political
structures of medical politics.

The notion of sovereignty which was quite undermining of the mediaeval understanding of society was
developed by Bodin and Hobbes where they opined that a society in order to exist at all must be held
together by sovereign power. Locke reviewed both this ideologies and defined government as a trust
which if violated would recover society its freedom of action and according to him society existed
before the government. For Locke civil society and political society where synonyms.

montesquieu assumed that a strong monarchial government was irremovable and the "free monarchy
equilibrium" between a powerful Central authority and interlocking mass of agencies and associations
with which it has to compose. According to him society was not defined independently of its political
constitution.