The Philosophy of Law

The Philosophy of Law  (1797)  by Immanuel Kant, translated by William Hastie

Translator’s Preface→

Original title: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre (1797). [First part of The Metaphysics of Morals.]

Title page, 1797.

Table of contents

• Translator’s Preface
• Preface
• Prolegomena
  • General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
  • General Divisions of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Introduction: Introduction to the Science of Right
  • General Definitions and Divisions
  • Division of the Science of Right
• Part First: Private Right
  • Chapter 1: Of the Mode of Having Anything External As One's Own
  • Chapter 2: The Mode of Acquiring Anything External
  • Chapter 3: Acquisition Conditioned by the Sentence of a Public Judicatory
• Part Second: Public Right
  • I: Right of the State and Constitutional Law
  • II:The Right of Nations and International Law
  • III:The Universal Right of Mankind
• Supplementary Explanations of the Principles of Right

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Original:	This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Translation:	This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.