La teoría pura del Estado de Kant

The aim of this paper is to argue that Kant’s Theory of state can be understood as the result of a process of deduction based on a priori principles of reason. As the faculty of principles, reason, in its practical use, formulates the categorical imperative, from which derives, by a transcendenta...

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Main Author: López Hernández, José
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=7498772
Source:Anuario de filosofía del derecho, ISSN 0518-0872, Nº 36, 2020, pags. 319-345
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Summary: The aim of this paper is to argue that Kant’s Theory of state can be understood as the result of a process of deduction based on a priori principles of reason. As the faculty of principles, reason, in its practical use, formulates the categorical imperative, from which derives, by a transcendental deduction, the idea of liberty. The categorical imperative is the universal moral law, on which the doctrine of law and the doctrine of virtue are based. The doctrine of law contains private and public law. The latter constitutes the core of the Theory of state, which is a pure doctrine, deduced from a priori principles, such as the idea of a transcendental liberty and the categorical imperativ. This paper analyses how this aprioristic deduction of the state reality is possible, how the state means the realisation of the law and which ones are the principles on which the idea of the state is built. The paper proposes the state as public law, the form of the state as a republic and its external projection as the law of peoples and cosmopolitan law towards the goal of a perpetual peace.