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Abstract
This book focuses on Kant’s analysis of three issues crucial for contemporary politics. Starting from a new reading of Kant’s account of our innate right to freedom, it highlights how a Kantian foundation of human rights, properly understood and modified where necessary, appears more promising than the foundational arguments currently offered by philosophers. It then compares Kant’s model for peace with the apparently similar model of democratic peace to show that the two are profoundly different in content and in quality. The book concludes in analysis of Kant’s controversial view of history to rescue it from the idea that his belief in progress is at best over-optimistic and at worst dogmatic.
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | 1 | ||
| Title Page | 4 | ||
| Copyright Page | 5 | ||
| Contents | 6 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 8 | ||
| List of Abbreviations | 10 | ||
| Dedication | 14 | ||
| Introduction | 16 | ||
| Part I: Human Rights | 30 | ||
| Chapter 1: Kant’s Theory of Human Rights | 32 | ||
| Chapter 2: Human Rights: the Contemporary Debate | 55 | ||
| Chapter 3: The Foundation of Human Rights: The Dignity Approach | 72 | ||
| Part II: Peace | 120 | ||
| Chapter 4: The Kantian Model | 122 | ||
| Chapter 5: Democratic Peace Theory | 175 | ||
| Chapter 6: The Two Models Compared | 210 | ||
| Part III: Progress | 222 | ||
| Chapter 7: Kant’s Early Teleology in Idea | 224 | ||
| Chapter 8: To Perpetual Peace: A Secular Guarantee of Progress? | 233 | ||
| Chapter 9: Progress and Political Agency | 250 | ||
| Notes | 272 | ||
| Bibliography | 294 | ||
| Index | 314 | ||
| Back Cover | 322 |