Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari; Mohammad Jalil Ale Amin
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Winter and Spring 2015, , Pages 81-102
Abstract
The problem with which we will deal in this paper is to realize the relation and the connection between Kant’s philosophy of law, and his understanding of human being as a cosmopolitan being, or a citizen of the world on the one hand and moral will on the other hand. The philosophy of Kant has ...
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The problem with which we will deal in this paper is to realize the relation and the connection between Kant’s philosophy of law, and his understanding of human being as a cosmopolitan being, or a citizen of the world on the one hand and moral will on the other hand. The philosophy of Kant has the enough capacity to be the philosophical foundation for sustainable peace plan. Kant's philosophy distinguishes the private rights from public rights and discusses them separately. Private right is limited to property. Ownership is one of Human freedoms but not an absolute one in Kant's philosophy of law. Ownership is usually belongs to the objects in social system, but people have also been the subject of ownership.Public right in Kant's philosophical system is divided into three categories: government right, the national right, and the international rights. To justify the right of private international law, one should begin from private rights which in Kant's critical philosophy are rooted in ethics. Individual freedom is a natural right by which the social state is made naturally, and accordingly the civilization appropriate to human beings, would be realizable
