Kant's Doctrine of right a commentary
Published in 1797, the Doctrine of Right is Kant's most significant contribution to legal and political philosophy. As the first part of the Metaphysics of Morals, it deals with the legal rights which persons have or can acquire, and aims at providing the grounding for lasting international pea...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and methods of interpretation
- The idea of the juridicial state and the postulate of public law
- The state of nature and the three leges
- The right to freedom
- The permissive law in the Doctrine of right
- The external mine and thine
- Intelligible possession of land
- The "state in the idea"
- The state in reality
- International and cosmopolitan law
- The "idea of public law" and its limits
- Contract law I : Why must I keep my promise?
- Contract law II : Kant's table of contracts
- Criminal punishment
- The human being as a person