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How should we act? How should the world be organised? This new
anthology on Kant's practical philosophy guides the reader from the
general question of the nature of reasons and rationality in Kant's
philosophical system to the Kantian task of promoting justice and
peace at the global level. Contributions in this volume show how
the Kantian idea of reason as a source of normativity is grounded,
and which implications and applications the Kantian approach might
bring about. The volume covers three areas: meta-ethics, political
thought and theory, and applied politics. Although these are
different spheres of thought, they are interconnected in an
fundamental way through Kant's account of normativity as derived
from reason. The volume provides an overview of recent debates in
Kant scholarship and ground-breaking new applications of Kant's
theory to current affairs.
This work elaborates the rationalist thesis of integrity, which
suggests that the concepts of law, the state, and justice can
neither be divorced from, nor be assimilated into each other. This
evidently refutes the positivist thesis of separation which breaks
off the cord between law and the state, on the one hand, and the
moral standpoint of justice, on the other hand. However, the thesis
of integrity also opposes the theses of assimilation which either
assimilate law and political authority into morality (the moralist
naivety), or, reversely, reduce law and justice into brute
political force (the realist cynicism). In brief, the integral view
gives each element its due in the nexus of law, the state and the
universal moral idea of justice (i.e. human rights). In this work,
this view is elicited through a comparative critical examination of
three theories, each of which is taken as representing a particular
approach beyond legal-moralism. These are Hans Kelsen's
legal-positivism, Carl Schmitt's realism, and Otfried Hoffe's
Kantian rationalism. Eventually, the book is intended to be
beneficial to those who are interested in political and legal
philosophy.
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