Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Works by Kant......Page 17
I. Background......Page 21
II. Kant\'s Moral Philosophy......Page 25
III. Kant\'s Legal and Political Philosophy......Page 39
I Early Conceptions......Page 47
1 Hutcheson and Kant......Page 49
I. Kant\'s Criticism of Hutcheson\'s Conclusions......Page 52
II. The Productive Aspects of Hutcheson\'s Argument......Page 61
III. Kant\'s Concept of Rational Ethics and Hutcheson\'s Concept of Moral Sense......Page 68
2 The Theory of Obligation in Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Early Kant......Page 78
1. New light on the old question concerning the context and sources for the \'Prize Essay\'......Page 79
a. Repudiation of his early Pufendorfian position under the impact of Leibniz\'s critique......Page 83
b. An alternative approach The distinction between active and passive obligation......Page 86
3. Baumgarten\'s radicalisation of the problem of obligation......Page 88
II Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals......Page 95
I......Page 97
II......Page 100
III......Page 105
Bibliography......Page 111
4 The Transition from Common Rational Moral Knowledge to Philosophical Rational Moral Knowledge in the Groundwork......Page 113
I......Page 115
II......Page 119
III......Page 131
IV......Page 140
Bibliography......Page 141
5 Reason Practical in Its Own Right......Page 143
6 Kant\'s Justification of the Role of Maxims in Ethics......Page 154
III Critique of practical reason......Page 177
1. Overview......Page 179
2. §4: Mere Form and the Deposit Example......Page 183
3. §5: A Free Will......Page 191
4. §6: Freedom and the Moral Law......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 197
1. The Object of Practical Reason......Page 199
2. Good and Evil as Categories of Freedom......Page 202
3. The Practical Faculty of Judgement......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 217
1. Book II, Chapter 1: \'On a dialectic of pure practical reason in general\'......Page 218
2. Book II, Chapter 2: \'On the dialectic of pure reason in determining the concept of the highest good\'......Page 224
3. \'The antinomy of practical reason\'......Page 225
4. \'The critical resolution of the antinomy of practical reason\'......Page 226
5. \'On the primacy of pure practical reason\'......Page 229
Bibliography......Page 232
10 The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason (CPrR:122-148)......Page 233
1. The postulates and pure practical faith......Page 234
2. The existence of God......Page 238
3. The immortality of the soul......Page 244
4. Theoretical reason and pure practical rational belief......Page 246
Bibliography......Page 248
IV Legal and political philosophy......Page 249
11 On How to Acquire Something External and Especially on the Right to Things (A Commentary on the Metaphysics of Morals §§10-17)......Page 251
Bibliography......Page 264
1. The state of war and the state of peace......Page 266
2. The necessary elements of a republican constitution......Page 270
3. The republican constitution as a constitution oriented towards peace......Page 273
4. The form of sovereignty and the form of government......Page 276
5. Republicanism and republics......Page 280
Bibliography......Page 284
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3......Page 291
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Bibliography......Page 303
14 Refusing Sovereign Power - The Relation between Philosophy and Politics in the Modern Age......Page 304
1. The apparent privilege of philosophy......Page 305
2. A Government of Philosopher Kings......Page 310
3. Practical knowledge......Page 314
4. The division of labour between politics and philosophy......Page 319
Bibliography......Page 323
Bibliography......Page 325
Index......Page 337