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Book SynopsisHow 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.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Contributors Introduction Alice Pinheiro Walla and Ruhi Demiray Part I: Reason and Normativity 1. Can Kantian Constructivism Avoid Realist Commitments? Michael Lyons 2. Staying Philosophically on the Surface: Constitutivist and Naturalist Quests for Normativity Sorin Baiasu 3. The Politics of Reason Sofie Christine Moller Part II: Reason and Legal Order 4. Justice, Citizenship and the Kingdom of Ends Sarah Holtman 5. Juridical Law as a Categorical Imperative Marie Newhouse 6. Provisional and Private Legality in Kant Christoph Hanish 7. Why Human Dignity Cannot Be the Basis of Human Rights, At Least on Kantian Grounds Matthe Scholten 8. Kant's Idea of Law and Human Rights Ruhi Demiray Part III: Kant and Contemporary Political Issues 9. Forcible Dispossession of Territory and State Legitimacy: A Kantian Account Sylvie Loriaux 10. Private Property and Territorial Rights: A Kantian Alternative to Contemporary Debates Alice Pinheiro Walla 11. Kant's Cosmopolitan Right and Human Dignity in European Asylum Law Domenica Dreyer-Plum Index
