"Sharing without Reckoning is the first full-scale modern treatment of the ancient distinction between "perfect" and "imperfect" rights and duties. It examines the use of the distinction in jurisprudential, philosophical and religious material from Classical times until the pres…
The present monograph examines whether corporate obligations, namely obligations binding directly upon a corporation under positive international!aw, have indeed emerged, as well as what challenges are facing international la\v as a result of the emergence of corporate obligatio…
Im gleichen Maße radikal wie revolutionär neu war Kants Ansatz auch hinsichtlich seines Verbindlichkeits- und Pflichtbegriffs, unterzieht Kant doch die seinerzeit vorherrschenden Konzeptionen einer scharfen Kritik und eröffnet somit den Weg für eine originäre und wirkungsgeschic…
The invention of duty: stoicism as deontology
Kant is commonly regarded as a deontologist, and duty, rather than the good, is placed at the center of his ethics. By a comprehensive examination of Kant's views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant's ethics and to replac…
Kant is commonly regarded as a deontologist, and duty, rather than the good, is placed at the center of his ethics. By a comprehensive examination of Kant's views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant's ethics and to replac…