Kant's Doctrine of right : a commentary / B. Sharon Byrd and Joachim Hruschka.
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Kant's Doctrine of right : a commentary / B. Sharon Byrd and Joachim Hruschka.
Published
Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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K457.K3 A3632 2010
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9780521196642 (hardback)
0521196647 (hardback)
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0521196647 (hardback)
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x, 336 pages ; 24 cm
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(OCoLC)456170398
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Introduction and methods of interpretation
1
1.
Placement of the Doctrine of Right within the Metaphysics of Morals
3
2.
Overall structure to the Commentary
5
3.
Kant's geometric method
9
4.
Kant's comments in his works preceding the Doctrine of Right of 1797
13
5.
Achenwall's natural law
15
6.
Additional authors on topics discussed in the Doctrine of Right
20
Chaper 1
The idea of the juridical state and the postulate of public law
23
1.
The juridical state (Rechtsstaat), the postulate of public law, and the public nature ofn law and rights
24
2.
The three formal criteria of the juridical state
32
3.
The substantive criterion of a juridical state
39
ch. 2
The state of nature and the three leges
44
1.
The non-juridical state or the state of nature
45
2.
The distinction between the lex iusti and the lex iuridica
52
3.
The contrasts among the lex iusti, the lex iuridica, and the lex iustitiae
58
4.
Kant's interpretation of the Ulpian formulae
62
5.
A return to public justice
67
Appendix to Chapter 2 Iustitia tutatrix, iustitia commutativa, and iustitia distributiva and their differences
71
1.
kant's development of Hobbes' distinction between commutative and distributive justice
71
2.
From the two-to the three-part division of public justice
74
ch. 3
The right to freedom
77
1.
The axiom of external freedom
77
2.
The negative and positive aspects of internal freedom
84
3.
The negative and positive aspects of external freedom
87
4.
Closing comments on the positive aspect of external freedom
90
ch. 4
The permissive law in the Doctrine of Right
94
1.
Two concepts of a permissive law
95
2.
The permissive law in the Doctrine of Right as a power-conferring norm
100
3.
The power the permissive law confers
103
ch. 5
The external mine and thine
107
1.
Kant's concepts of possession
107
2.
How is possession as mine possible?
111
3.
Rights in rem to specific objects of choice
119
ch. 6
Intelligible possession of land
122
1.
How is original acquisition of a piece of land possible?
123
2.
The original right to a place on the earth
126
3.
The original community of the land
129
4.
The originally united will
132
5.
The requirement to divide the land as a synthetic principle of law a priori
135
6.
The postulate of public law
138
ch. 7
The "state in the idea"
143
1.
The state in the idea and the juridical state
143
2.
The distinction of three state powers
146
3.
Practical syllogisms of reason and the role of the executive
149
4.
Kant's comparison of the three powers to the propositions in a practical syllogism
157
5.
The doctrine of the three state dignities
161
6.
The separation of powers
163
ch. 8
The state in reality
168
1.
The original contract
169
2.
The forms of state and the "representative system of the people"
175
3.
Revolution in the Doctrine of Right
181
4.
Reforms in the Doctrine of Right
184
ch. 9
International and cosmopolitan law
188
1.
The permission to coerce others to enter a juridical nation state
189
2.
The duty states have to enter a juridical state of nation states
194
3.
The nature of a juridical state of nation states
196
4.
Cosmopolitan law
205
5.
Security for the mine and thine in a state of peace
211
ch. 10
the "idea of public law" and its limits
215
1.
Kant's terminology on the distinction between commutative and distributive justice
215
2.
kant's treatment of the "four cases" in [§][§]36-40 of the Doctrine of Right
219
3.
On right that have no judge
226
ch. 11
Contract law I. Why must I keep my promise?
232
1.
The moral capacity to have a contractual claim
233
2.
A contractual claim as a universal right
236
3.
Acquiring a contractual claim in reality
239
4.
Freedom of contract and its limits
240
5.
why must I keep my promise?
243
ch. 12
Contract law II. Kant's table of contracts
245
1.
The trhre "pure" forms of contract
247
2.
The twelve aspects highlighted in the table
249
3.
The completeness of the table of contracts
258
ch. 13
Criminal punishment
261
1.
Achenwall's theory of criminal punishment
262
2.
Kant's reasoning behind the criminal law
264
3.
"The criminal law is a categorical imperative"
267
4.
Punishment in the juridical state
270
5.
The amount of punishment: the principle of retribution
272
6.
The death penalty and Kant's position on Beccaria
275
ch. 14
The human being as a person
279
1.
The homo phaenomenon
280
2.
The homo noumenon
282
3.
On the relationship between homo noumenon and homo phaenomenon
285
4.
Imputation of human actions
290
Appendix I to Chapter 14:
On the logic of "òught' implies' can"
294
1.
"Òught' implies ̀can'" in the prospective application of a rule
294
2.
"Òught' implies' ̀can'" in the retrospective application of a rule
296
Appendix II to Chapter 14:
The system of rules of imputation
298
1.
"Merit" and "moral culpability"
299
2.
The consequences of my action
301
3.
The degree of imputability to merit or to demerit
306
Bibliography
309
Index
321