ABSTRACT
The interconnection between freedom and right is at the core of Immanuel Kant's practical thought. Freedom is a central concept in so far as a free use of reason stands as a prerequisite for the analysis of reason itself. Nature is assumed by Kant as a supplement to the moral duty to achieve peace. Not only is nature not an obstacle for our achievement of peace, but it allows us to judge historical approximation towards peace in terms of a subjective principle for the finality of human endeavors. A law of actions that we can force someone to perform is a coercive law, and the right attached to it is coercive right. A right that is not coercive right is equity. Kant’s moral philosophy is at the basis of his conception of positive law and thus of his views on politics.
