Summary of philosophy of right (õiguse filosoofia kokkuvõte)
Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws
In this political treatise Montesquieu advocates constitutionalism and the separation of powers,
the abolition of slavery, the preservation of civil liberties and the rule of law, and the idea that
political and legal institutions ought to reflect the social and geographical character of each
particular community.
Kant Idea for a universal History with a cosmopolitan purpose
Kant was a Calvinist. Natural law preditermines every natural event. But history can not be
predicted because men act chaotically.
Kant seeks to prove his claim that rational and moral autonomy will inevitably defeat the
compulsions of self-interested individualism. Kant seeks to achieve this by advancing a
hierarchical account of development of world history.In writing from the perspective of a
universal future history, Kant valorizes an unrealized future state (though he is aware, however,