Rights of Reason
Man, Kant claimed, is a ''being of needs'' that are not met by nature as man''s due but only through his own strenuous and imperfect efforts. This book is the first to examine Kant''s understanding of the relation between man and nature as it bears on his theory of right. It sheds new and important light on Kant''s politics and on his place in the history of liberal thought. Its sustained consider...
Man, Kant claimed, is a ''being of needs'' that are not met by nature as man''s due but only through his own strenuous and imperfect efforts. This book is the first to examine Kant''s understanding of the relation between man and nature as it bears on his theory of right. It sheds new and important light on Kant''s politics and on his place in the history of liberal thought. Its sustained consider...
