Kant’s Social and Political Philosophy (opens in new tab)

Kant’s political philosophy is a branch of practical philosophy, one-half of one of the broadest divisions in Kant’s thought between practical and theoretical philosophy. Political philosophy is also to be distinguished within practical philosophy from both empirically-based elements and from virtue proper. The separation from virtue is treated later in this section. Regarding the empirical elements, it is worth mentioning that practical philosophy, as a set of rules governing free behavior o...