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Jul 24, 2007 · Kant held that every rational being had both an innate right to freedom and a duty to enter into a civil condition governed by a social contract in order to realize and preserve that freedom. His writings on political philosophy consist of one book and several shorter works.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau’s own view of most philosophy and philosophers was...
- Account of Reason
Bibliography Primary sources. Kant’s works are cited by...
- Kant's Moral Philosophy
1. Aims and Methods of Moral Philosophy. The most basic aim...
- Natural Law Theories
Kant’s (see Alexy 2002, 117–121) is such a theory: a legal...
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dec 10, 2016 · While Kant himself does not discuss this type of scenario (called self-defense under an innocent aggressor), a moral theory informed by the Kantian maxim (Never treat others as mere means) has been developed in the name of the doctrine of double effect (DDE).
Jul 28, 2003 · Feinberg has claimed that there are at least four different meanings of “autonomy” in moral and political philosophy: the capacity to govern oneself, the actual condition of self-government, a personal ideal, and a set of rights expressive of one’s sovereignty over oneself (Feinberg 1989).
Dec 16, 2023 · For a long time, Kantian autonomy – self-government through practical law – was understood in the sense sketched in the previous paragraph. It was a reading that focused primarily on Kant’s writings on (meta-)ethics, such as the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason.
- hvarden@illinois.edu
The present article is an attempt to clarify the Kantian conception of duties to the self and to defend them against common objections. Kant’s thesis that all duty rests on duties to the self is shown to follow from the autonomy of the human will; and the allegation that they are impossible because the agent could always release himself from ...
- Jens Timmermann
- 2006
Kant’s political philosophy rests on a highly contentious claim: that rational agents have. right to freedom, by which he means that their freedom can justifiably be restricted only for the sake of freedom itself.
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At the center of Kant's ethical theory is the claim that normal adults are capable of being fully self‐governing in moral matters. In Kant's terminology, we are “autonomous.” Autonomy involves two components.
