Kant on laws / Eric Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Eric, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book focuses on the unity, diversity, and centrality of the notion of law as it is employed in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Eric Watkins argues that, by thinking through a number of issues in various historical, scientific, and philosophical contexts over several decades, Kant is able to develop a univocal concept of law that can nonetheless be applied to a wide range of particular cases, despite the diverse demands that these contexts give rise to. In addition, Watkins shows how Kant comes to view both the generic conception of law which he develops and its different particular instances as crucial components of his systematic philosophy as a whole. This volume's new and unified account of a major current running through Kant's work will be important for scholars interested in numerous aspects of his philosophy, from the theoretical and abstract to the practical and empirical.

Contents:

What is, for Kant, a law of nature?

Kant on transcendental laws

The system of principles

The argumentative structure of Kant's metaphysical foundations of natural science

The laws of motion from Newton to Kant

Kant's justification of the laws of mechanic

The antinomy of teleological judgment

Nature in general as a system of ends

Kant on rational cosmology

Kant on infima species

Autonomy and the legislation of laws in the prolegomena

Kant on the natural, moral, human, and divine orders

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-73240-1

1-316-73047-6

1-316-68302-8