Kantian jurisprudence
The other thing I am dissatisfied with is that there has not been many English exposition of the Kantian idea of (and about) the law and justice. Professor Charles Fried of Harvard Law School relied heavily on Kantian ideas of the moral law, etc. when he wrote "Right and Wrong" (1971) and "Contract as Promise" (1981). Neverthtless these books do not present us with a complete picture of the Kantian critique of the law. Unlike Thomas Aquinas, who fortunately had John Finnis to carry on his natural law theory legacy, Kant seems to have been forgotten as a jurist. Yet how could this be? How can we actually overlook the jurisprudential contributions of the preeminent moral philosopher of the Western world?
posted by James Chang @ 11:16 PM
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