The Idea of Positive Law: Immanuel Kant’s Transcendental Argument

• Authors: Tomasz Bekrycht

Abstracts

EN

In their philosophical projects that address the concept of law, Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and Georg W. F. Hegel all employ transcendental argumentation to demonstrate the sovereignty of community and the existence of power. They do this in the attempt to conceptually ground the idea of freedom and reconcile it with the notion of coercion within the framework of the idea of positive law. This article focuses solely on the Kantian project, since the approaches of Fichte and Hegel take on a more speculative turn in addition to their transcendental form.

Keywords

EN

positive law; transcendental argumentation; categorical imperative; coercion

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych - Centre for Philosophical Research
• Journal: Avant
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 147-157

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Tomasz Bekrycht

• University of Lodz, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.26913/avant.2019.01.09

Biblioteka Nauki

2200448