Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy
eBook - PDF

Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy

A Critical Guide

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  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy

A Critical Guide

About this book

A decade prior to his main publications in political philosophy, Kant presented his views on the topic in his 1784 course lectures on natural right. This Critical Guide examines this only surviving student transcript of these lectures, which shows how Kant's political philosophy developed in response to the dominant natural law tradition and other theories. Fourteen new essays explore how Kant's lectures reveal his assessment of natural law, the central value of freedom, the importance of property and contract, the purposes and powers of the state, and the role of individual autonomy and the rights of human beings. The essays place his claims in relation to events and other publications of the early 1780s, and show Kant in the process of working out the theories which would later characterize his influential political philosophy.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781009215060
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Imprints page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Citations, Translations, and Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 1 A Brief Guide to Achenwall’s Natural Law: The Textbook for Kant’s Lectures on Legal and Political Philosophy
  13. Chapter 2 The Many Ends of Natural Law
  14. Chapter 3 Absorbing Natural Right into the Kantian System
  15. Chapter 4 Kant’s Search for a Metaphysics of Morals: The Feyerabend Lectures
  16. Chapter 5 Innate Right: Kant and the Natural Law Tradition
  17. Chapter 6 Kant’s Critique of Achenwall’s Account of Property in His Feyerabend Lectures
  18. Chapter 7 The Economy in the Feyerabend Lecture Notes on Natural Right
  19. Chapter 8 Our Rights to Ourselves and Others: Marriage, Sex, and Slavery in the Feyerabend Lectures
  20. Chapter 9 States of Nature as Theories of Normativity: Kant and His Predecessors
  21. Chapter 10 Fundamental Aspects of Public Right
  22. Chapter 11 Freedom of Religion and Thought in the Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law: The Development of Kant’s Conception of Enlightenment
  23. Chapter 12 Happiness, Paternalism, and Social Welfare: Unexpected Insights from the Naturrecht Feyerabend
  24. Chapter 13 Kant’s Retributive Turn: Punishment and Autonomy in the Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Right (and Later Writings)
  25. Chapter 14 Death and the Limits to State Coercive Power
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. Endseries