Book contents
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Critique of Pure Reason as the Establishment of Reason’s Lawful Condition
- Chapter 2 The Normativity of Law
- Chapter 3 The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories and the Tradition of Legal Deductions
- Chapter 4 The Question of Fact and the Question of Law in Judicial Imputation and in the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
- Chapter 5 The Tribunal of Reason
- Chapter 6 Moral Conscience as the Practical Inner Tribunal
- Chapter 7 Distinguishing between Rightful Claims and Groundless Pretensions
- Chapter 8 Epistemic Authority as both Individual and Collectively Shared
- Chapter 9 Systematicity and Philosophy as the Legislation of Reason
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - The Normativity of Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2020
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Kant’s Tribunal of Reason
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Critique of Pure Reason as the Establishment of Reason’s Lawful Condition
- Chapter 2 The Normativity of Law
- Chapter 3 The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories and the Tradition of Legal Deductions
- Chapter 4 The Question of Fact and the Question of Law in Judicial Imputation and in the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
- Chapter 5 The Tribunal of Reason
- Chapter 6 Moral Conscience as the Practical Inner Tribunal
- Chapter 7 Distinguishing between Rightful Claims and Groundless Pretensions
- Chapter 8 Epistemic Authority as both Individual and Collectively Shared
- Chapter 9 Systematicity and Philosophy as the Legislation of Reason
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter places Kant’s conception of a priori laws within the framework of the legal metaphors. It introduces the relevant aspects of natural right theory and the notion of laws in the natural sciences as historical background to the legal metaphors. The main argument is that Kant’s notion of laws is embedded in his legal metaphors and his account of natural regularities as lawful also originates in the natural right framework. This serves as background to Kant’s account of the understanding as prescribing laws to nature and to thought. The background of Kant’s notion of laws in natural right and natural science shows how reason’s a priori laws are both descriptive of regularities in nature and prescriptive of valid judgements.
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- Kant's Tribunal of ReasonLegal Metaphor and Normativity in the <I>Critique of Pure Reason</I>, pp. 32 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020