Kant: Lectures and Drafts on Political Philosophy by Frederick Rauscher

Kant: Lectures and Drafts on Political Philosophy by Frederick Rauscher

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This is the first translation into English of the only surviving set of student notes from Kant's course on political philosophy and the notes and drafts he wrote whilst formulating his ideas on the importance of freedom, the social contract, international peace, property rights, the French Revolution, and other topics.

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Kant: Lectures and Drafts on Political Philosophy by Frederick Rauscher

This book is the first translation into English of the Reflections which Kant wrote whilst formulating his ideas in political philosophy: the preparatory drafts for Theory and Practice, Toward Perpetual Peace, the Doctrine of Right, and Conflict of the Faculties; and the only surviving student transcription of his course on Natural Right. Through these texts one can trace the development of his political thought, from his first exposure to Rousseau in the mid 1760s through to his last musings in the late 1790s after his final system of Right was published. The material covers such topics as the central role of freedom, the social contract, the nature of sovereignty, the means for achieving international peace, property rights in relation to the very possibility of human agency, the general prohibition of rebellion, and Kant's philosophical defense of the French Revolution.
Frederick Rauscher is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of Naturalism and Realism in Kant's Ethics (forthcoming), co-translator with Curtis Bowman and Paul Guyer of Kant's Notes and Fragments, edited by Paul Guyer (2005), and editor with Daniel Omar Perez of Kant in Brazil (2012). Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boðaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul. He has published widely on German philosophy, and on Kant's philosophy in particular. His publications include Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism (2004) and How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law (2016).
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ISBN 13 9781108813037
ISBN 10 1108813038
Title Kant: Lectures and Drafts on Political Philosophy
Author Frederick Rauscher
Series The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Immanuel Kant
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2020-03-26
Number of pages 467
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