Kant on Laws

ISBN-13: 9781316615560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 313 str.

Eric Watkins

Opis

Provides a unified account of the notion of law - both natural and moral - in Kant's abstract and empirical philosophy.

Recenzje

'Kant on Laws is a wonderful piece of scholarship and must be read by anyone with an interest in Kant's conception of law.' Hein van den Berg, European Journal of Philosophy

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Kant's Conception of Law: 1. What is, for Kant, a law of nature?; 2. Kant on transcendental laws; Part II. The Laws of Mechanics: 3. The system of principles; 4. The argumentative structure of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science; 5. The laws of motion from Newton to Kant; 6. Kant's justification of the laws of mechanics; Part III. Teleological Laws: 7. The antinomy of teleological judgment; 8. Nature in general as a system of ends; Part IV. Laws as Regulative Principles: 9. Kant on rational cosmology; 10. Kant on Infima Species; Part V. The Moral Law: 11. Autonomy and the legislation of laws in the Prolegomena; 12. Kant on the natural, moral, human, and divine orders.