Kant on Laws

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Eric Watkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of the prizewinning Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (Cambridge, 2005) and editor of Kant on Persons and Agency (Cambridge, 2017).

Summary

This book provides a new account of the notion of law in Kant's abstract and empirical philosophy. It considers laws of nature, moral law, and the notion of law that is involved in both cases. Its unified approach will appeal to scholars interested in Kant's theory and practice of legislation.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Watkins, Eric (University of California Watkins, Watkins Eric
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781316615560
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61556-0
• No. of pages: 313
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law