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Paul Guyer, winner of the 2024 International Kant Prize, is one of the world's leading Kant scholars. This volume collects twelve of his essays on Kant's philosophy of Right, his political-legal philosophy, published since 2009. The essays definitely establish the foundation of Kant's philosophy of Right in his moral philosophy, and demonstrate the continuing need for motivation by respect for the moral law on the part of both those in positions of power and ordinary citizens in any government that aspires to the ideal of justice. The volume examines Kant's contribution to specific issues such as the separation of powers in a constitutional democracy and the separation of church and state, and concludes with two essays showing how John Rawls's well-known theory of justice is grounded on Kant's moral philosophy but could have benefited by attention to Kant's own doctrine of Right.
Contents
Part I. The Moral Necessity of the Civil Condition: 1. The twofold morality of Kantian Recht: once more into the breach; 2. Innate right and the natural law tradition; 3. Hume and Kant on utility, freedom, and justice; Part II. Morality in Government: 4. The crooked timber of humankind; 5. Morality, right, and responsibility; Part III. The Form of Government: 6. 'Hobbes is of the opposite opinion': Kant and Hobbes on the three authorities in the state; 7. 'Achenwall, Kant, and the separation of governmental powers'; 8. Is sovereignty divided still sovereignty? Kant and the federalist; Part IV. Separating Church and State: 9. Arguing for freedom of religion; 10. Mendelssohn, Kant, and religious pluralism; Part V. Kant's Doctrine of Right and Rawls's Theory of Justice: 11. Rawls and the history of moral philosophy: the cases of Smith and Kant; 12. Principles of justice, primary goods, and categories of right: Rawls and Kant; Bibliography, with list of abbreviations; Index.
