Kant's lectures on political philosophy : a critical guide / edited by Frederick Rauscher, Michigan State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rauscher, Frederick, 1961- editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical guides.

Cambridge critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Political science--Philosophy--History--18th century.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A decade prior to his main publications in political philosophy, Kant presented his views on the topic in his 1784 course lectures on natural right. This Critical Guide examines this only surviving student transcript of these lectures, which shows how Kant's political philosophy developed in response to the dominant natural law tradition and other theories. Fourteen new essays explore how Kant's lectures reveal his assessment of natural law, the central value of freedom, the importance of property and contract, the purposes and powers of the state, and the role of individual autonomy and the rights of human beings. The essays place his claims in relation to events and other publications of the early 1780s, and show Kant in the process of working out the theories which would later characterize his influential political philosophy.

Contents:

A brief guide to Achenwall's Natural law : the textbook for Kant's lectures on legal and political philosophy / Pauline Kleingeld, Michael Gregory, and Fiorella Tomassini

Our rights to ourselves and others : marriage, sex, and slavery in the Feyerabend lectures / Jordan Pascoe

Death and the limits to state coercive power / Frederick Rauscher.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-21507-8

1-009-21506-X

1-009-21509-4

OCLC:

1518215988