ABSTRACT
The general theme concerns the aim and structure of practical philosophy and what is required to determine specific duties. This chapter develops this theme by discussing the following issues: First, two oversights in Kant's justification of rights to possession, second, the role of philosophical anthropology in Kant's universalization tests. Third, the roles of social institutions in specifying our ethical obligations, finally Kant's under-developed view of government and G. W. F. Hegel's claim that, unlike Kant's Rechtslehre, his Rechtsphilosophie provides an "immanent" doctrine of duties. A key component of Hegel's objection to Kant's Categorical Imperative as a criterion of normative legitimacy is that it affords no "immanent" doctrine of duties. One main aspect of Hegel's notorious charge that Kant's Categorical Imperative is "empty" is that the tests of the Cate.
