Book launch 'The Postulate of Public Right’ [online tickets]

CEPL Book launch 'The Postulate of Public Right’

Please join Prof Patrick Capps and Prof Julian Rivers for their book launch 'The Postulate of Public Right’.Kant's main work in the philosophy of law – the Doctrine of Right (1797) – is difficult for modern readers to understand. Kant argues that rightful relations between human beings can only be achieved if we enter into a civil legal condition taking a defined constitutional form. We emphasise that Kant considers this claim to be a postulate of practical reason, thus identifying the pure idea of the state as the culmination of his entire practical philosophy. The Doctrine of Right makes sense as an attempt to clarify the content of the postulate of public right and interpret existing domestic and Int. legal arrangements in the light of the noumenal republic it postulates. Properly understood, Kant's postulate of public right is the epistemological foundation of a non-positivist legal theory that remains of central significance to modern legal philosophy and legal doctrinal method.