Discussion on the Problem of Coercion: Gottlieb Hufeland and Immanuel Kant
The problem of coercion, raised as part of the theory of natural right in Germany in the late eighteenth century, is discussed with particular reference to the polemic between Gottlieb Hufeland and Immanuel Kant. In his Essay on the Principle of Natural Right (1785) and the first edition of the Principles of Natural Right and Related Sciences (1790) Hufeland derives right from the moral imperative, the duty to contribute to the perfection ...
