Open Access“ROUSSEAU SET ME ARIGHT” – THE LEGACY OF ROUSSEAU IN KANT’S LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE IDEALIZATION OF THE VOLONTÉ GÉNÉRALE
Author(s) -
Dieter Hüning
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
estudos kantianos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2318-0501
DOI - 10.36311/2318-0501/2013.v1n2.3329
Subject(s) - general will , idealization , philosophy , constitution , theme (computing) , politics , social contract , epistemology , order (exchange) , political philosophy , law , political science , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , computer science , economics , operating system
The article tries to expose the relationship between Rousseau and Kant with regard to the concept of the general will. In part I, it is analyzed, what is the central theme in Rousseau's Contrat social, i. e. the reconciliation of freedom to authority.Then (in part II) the article is concerned with the question, how Rousseau's concept of the general will has influenced the constitutional law of Immanuel Kant. In part III it is discussed, how Kant has changed the theory of the general will in order tocombine it with a representative constitution of the republic.