Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108498494)

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie M ller shows that they are central to Kant's account of reason. Through an analysis of the legal metaphors in their entirety, she demonstrates that Kant conceives of reason as having a structure mirroring that of a legal system in a natural right framework. Her study shows that Kant's aim is to make cognisers become similar to authorized judges within such a system, by proving the legitimacy of the laws and the conditions under which valid judgments can be pronounced. These elements consolidate her conclusion that reason's systematicity is legal systematicity.

Author: Sofie Mler
ISBN-10: 1108498493
ISBN-13: 9781108498494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.50d