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- 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.
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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.
- Natural Law Theories
Kant’s (see Alexy 2002, 117–121) is such a theory: a legal...
- Kant's Moral Philosophy
Understanding the idea of autonomy was, in Kant’s view, key...
- Kant, Immanuel
On Kant’s view, our ideas of the soul, the world-whole, and...
- Natural Law Theories
Feb 10, 2017 · He is the most significant and widely discussed moral philosopher in history. And he was self-consciously an Enlightenment liberal who believed in limited government and maximum freedom. Let’s take a look at the elements of his moral and political argument for freedom.
Summary. Autonomy and freedom of the will. The concept of freedom is the central normative and metaphysical concept in Kant's philosophy. Freedom of choice and action from constraint by external forces but also even from one's own mere inclinations, something that can be achieved not by the elimination of inclinations, which is not possible for ...
- Paul Guyer
- 2010
This article analyzes Kant’s conception of freedom and discussions about it. It starts with Kant’s early works and his search for the ways to overcome the limitations of the views of freedom as independence from one’s own inclinations and from whims of others.
Kant's early critics maintained that his theory of freedom faces a dilemma: either it reduces the will's activity to strict necessity by making it subject to the causality of the moral law, or it reduces the will's activity to blind chance by liberating it from rules of any kind.