Sloboda u Kantovom razumijevanju prava
Freedom in Kant’s Understanding of Law

Author(s): Spahija Kozlić
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: freedom; ethics; law; principles; authority;
Summary/Abstract: In his consideration of law as an external authority, Kant repeats the thesis from discussions about the theoretical and practical mind that law is not an empirical concept but an intelligible one, and thus it is a set of conditions under which the freedom of one can exist alongside (together) with the freedom of another under equal general principles, while the science of law itself is a set of laws to which external legislation refers. Opposing Thomas Hobbes, in the writing “On the General Proposition: it might be right in theory, but it is not valid in practice”, Kant elaborates the concept of law as something that arises from the concept of freedom in the mutual relations of people in order to socially contract the conditions of living together.

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