Reason, Normativity and Law New Essays in Kantian Philosophy.
Reason, Normativity and Law New Essays in Kantian Philosophy.
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (290 pages).
- Political Philosophy Now .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Half-title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Reason and Normativity -- 1. Can Kantian Constructivism Avoid Realist Commitments? -- 2. Staying Philosophically on the Surface: Constitutivist and Naturalist Quests for Normativity -- 3. The Politics of Reason -- Part II: Reason and Legal Order -- 4. Justice, Citizenship and the Kingdom of Ends -- 5. Juridical Law as a Categorical Imperative -- 6. Provisional and Private Legality in Kant 7. Why Human Dignity Cannot Be the Basis of Human Rights, at Least Not on Kantian Grounds -- 8. Kant's Idea of Law and Human Rights -- Part III: Kant and Contemporary Political Issues -- 9. Forcible Dispossession of Territory and State Legitimacy: A Kantian Account -- 10. Private Property and Territorial Rights: A Kantian Alternative to Contemporary Debates -- 11. Kant's Cosmopolitan Right and Human Dignity in European Asylum Law -- Bibliography -- Index
How should we act? How should the world be organised? This book offers answers to these questions by analysing Kant's conception of normativity. It presents different applications of Kant's theory of normativity to meta-ethical, moral, juridical and political issues of contemporary relevance.
9781786835130
Political science--Philosophy.
Normativity (Ethics)
Electronic Books.
JC11 / .R437 2020
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Half-title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Reason and Normativity -- 1. Can Kantian Constructivism Avoid Realist Commitments? -- 2. Staying Philosophically on the Surface: Constitutivist and Naturalist Quests for Normativity -- 3. The Politics of Reason -- Part II: Reason and Legal Order -- 4. Justice, Citizenship and the Kingdom of Ends -- 5. Juridical Law as a Categorical Imperative -- 6. Provisional and Private Legality in Kant 7. Why Human Dignity Cannot Be the Basis of Human Rights, at Least Not on Kantian Grounds -- 8. Kant's Idea of Law and Human Rights -- Part III: Kant and Contemporary Political Issues -- 9. Forcible Dispossession of Territory and State Legitimacy: A Kantian Account -- 10. Private Property and Territorial Rights: A Kantian Alternative to Contemporary Debates -- 11. Kant's Cosmopolitan Right and Human Dignity in European Asylum Law -- Bibliography -- Index
How should we act? How should the world be organised? This book offers answers to these questions by analysing Kant's conception of normativity. It presents different applications of Kant's theory of normativity to meta-ethical, moral, juridical and political issues of contemporary relevance.
9781786835130
Political science--Philosophy.
Normativity (Ethics)
Electronic Books.
JC11 / .R437 2020