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050			_aJC181.K4 _b.W54 1983
100			_aWilliams, Howard
245		0	_aKant's Political Philosophy _b / _cHoward Williams
260			_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c1983
300			_ax, 292 p. _b; _c24 cm.
505			_apt. 1. Man and history. Optimism -- History and teleology -- Man's unsociable sociablility -- Authority and society -- Providence and world peace -- Teleology and morality -- pt. 2. The moral world and the political world. Introduction -- The moral law -- The will and freedom -- Theory and practice -- Practical reason and politics -- The moral politician -- Kant and Machiavelli -- pt. 3. The metaphysics of justice. Kant's dualistic concept of man -- The two types of moral law -- The distinction between ethics and right -- Human nature and justice -- A negative concept of freedom -- The weaknesses of Kant's concept of justice -- pt. 4. The concept of property. Property in political theory -- Kant's concept of property -- The "natural right" to property -- Property and coercion -- pt. 5. The contractual relations of civil society. The theory of punishment -- Retribution with Kant and Hegel -- Contract -- Marriage and the role of women -- pt. 6. Kant and the ideals of liberalism. Introduction -- A patriotic freedom -- Equality -- Independence -- The principle of publicity -- pt. 7. The philosophical foundations of the state. Civil society and the state -- The a priori justification of the state -- The three aspects of a constitution -- The form of government and the form of sovereignty -- The idea of the state and citizenship -- The social contract -- pt. 8. Authority and the state. Individual welfare and the welfare of the state -- Resistance to the sovereign -- Kant and the French Revolution -- The principles of reform -- pt. 9. Two Marxist views of Kant's political philosophy. Introduction -- The social nature of knowledge -- A tragic vision of man -- Marcuse: objections to Kant's concept of freedom -- pt. 10. Kant's plan for international peace: the highest political good and the highest moral good. Introduction -- The preconditions for peace -- The conditions for peace: the three definitive articles -- Perpetual peace: the religious dilemma -- The merits of Kant's political philosophy. rc.
650			_aKant, Immanuel,—1724-1804—Political and social views.Kant, Immanuel,—1724-1804.—Contributions in political science.
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