Affection of Law: Fichte on the Place and Boundaries of Pure Ethics of the Imperative
In his popular 1806 lectures on religion Fichte considered five possible worldviews in the second of which, “the standpoint of legality”, one can readily recognise the ethics of law of the Stoical and Kantian type. Fichte stresses that in his youth he himself shared this worldview. However, he hastens to adduce a series of ... ... arguments to show that this position is essentially incapable of delivering a pure and higher moral doctrine. I examine the substance of these critical arguments in the context of his later metaphysics. Fichte maintains that in the “second type” ...
How transcendental are Kant’s principles of public law?
... Philosophy. Ed. by H. Williams. Cardiff. 37. Sassenbach, U. 1992, Der Begriff des Politischen bei Immanuel Kant. Würzburg.
public law, politics, publicity, morals, justice of maxims, transcendental and empirical, a priori principles, bliss and happiness, form and substance of law, law enforcement
Zilber A.
34-51
10.5922/0207-6918-2016-1-3
Kant and Hegel, an alleged right and the ‘inverted world’
The category of power is one of ontological predicates discussed by Kant in lectures on metaphysics. This concept expresses relation of substance to its attributes and plays an important role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Law is a simple form of unity incorporating an idea of the play of powers, whereas power is a category that makes it possible to understand the supersensible as a realm of laws. This interpretation is inherent in the system of not only theoretical but also practical ...
