Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy: A Critical Guide by Frederick Rauscher (editor) ISBN 9781009215084, 9781009215091, 1009215086, 1009215094, 101017/9781009215091 instant download

Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy: A Critical Guide by Frederick Rauscher (editor) ISBN 9781009215084, 9781009215091, 1009215086, 1009215094, 101017/9781009215091 instant download

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.

Contributors: Frederick Rauscher, Pauline Kleingeld, Michael Gregory, Fiorella Tomassini, Larry Krasnoff, Howard Williams, Allen W. Wood, Paul Guyer, Kenneth Westphal, Lucy Allais, Jordan Pascoe, Macarena Marey, Luigi Caranti, Monique Hulshof, Sarah Holtman, Susan Meld Shell