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Force and freedom : Kant's legal and political philosophy
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Force and freedom : Kant's legal and political philosophy

Author: Arthur Ripstein
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this work, both an illumination of Kant's thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant's political philosophy.
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Named Person: Immanuel Kant; Immanuel Kant; Immanuel Kant
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Ripstein
ISBN: 9780674035065 0674035062
OCLC Number: 300029662
Awards: Shortlisted for C B MacPherson Prize 2010.
Description: xiii, 399 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Kant on law and justice : an overview --
The innate right of humanity --
Private right I : acquired rights --
Private right II : property --
Private right III : contract and consent --
Three defects in the state of nature --
Public right I : giving laws to ourselves --
Public right II : roads to freedom --
Public right III : redistribution and equality of opportunity --
Public right IV : punishment --
Public right V : revolution and the right of human beings as such.
Responsibility: Arthur Ripstein.

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Shows that Kant's thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; and second, Kant argues for a  Read more...

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