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dc.contributor.authorAchenwall, Gottfried
dc.contributor.editorKleingeld, Pauline
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:54:38Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:54:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781350022867_162
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58831
dc.description.abstractAs the first translation into any modern language of Achenwall’sIus naturae, from the 1763 edition used by Immanuel Kant, this open access book is an essential work for students and Kant scholars. For over twenty years, Kant used this book as the basis for his lectures on natural law. It has influenced his legal and political philosophy, as well as his ethics, and is indispensable for understanding Kant’s Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law and his Metaphysics of Morals. Achenwall’s Ius naturae focuses on the fundamental principles of legal and political philosophy. It first discusses the natural rights and obligations pertaining to the relations of humans independently of their membership in particular communities, and then discusses those pertaining to the family, the state, and international relations. Articulating his theory with clear definitions, precise distinctions, and instructive comparisons with the work of Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Wolff, and others, Achenwall offers a lucid account that fits squarely in the natural law tradition. His handbook is of interest to scholars of natural law, social contract theory, and the history of political theory more generally. This is a complete English translation of both volumes of the 1763 edition. The volume also includes an Introduction by eminent Kant scholar Paul Guyer, comparing Achenwall’s theory to the legal and political philosophy of Kant’s Doctrine of Right. Moreover, the volume features a concordance correlating the Ius naturae to Kant’s Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Dutch Research Council.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesKant’s Sources in Translation
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thoughten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophyen_US
dc.subject.otherImmanuel Kant*
dc.subject.othernatural law*
dc.subject.otherAchenwall*
dc.subject.otherHobbes*
dc.subject.otherChristian Wolff*
dc.subject.otherpolitical thought*
dc.subject.otherRousseau*
dc.subject.otherLocke*
dc.subject.otherTextbook*
dc.titleNatural Law
dc.title.alternativeA Translation of the Textbook for Kant’s Lectures on Legal and Political Philosophy
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781350022867
oapen.relation.isbn9781350022850
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages296
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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