What is, for Kant, a Law of Nature

In this paper I explore Kant’s understanding of a law of nature. I begin by reviewing Kant’s explicit statements about what a law is in general before describing an important challenge to the very idea of a law of nature that emerges from the conjunction of the natural law tradition and laws of nature in the early modern period. I then articulate how Kant can respond to that challenge by noting how he can draw on a univocal concept of law involving necessity and legislation in articulating his accounts of laws of nature and the moral law. In this way, we not only come to a better appreciation of Kant’s views on the laws of nature, but also see more clearly some significant structural similarities between his theoretical and practical philosophies as a whole

Comparative law · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Natural law · Natural order · Philosophy of law · Political science · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · War, Ethics, and Justification · Law · Philosophy

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