Abstract
Abstract Chapter 2 concerns a specific feature of Kant’s political philosophy that is of fundamental significance, namely the notion of provisional right. In this idea, Kant has formulated an essential aspect of the historicity of German Idealism and it deserves sustained discussion on its own. I connect this notion with two important features of ownership relations in the Sattelzeit. First, the practical problem of ownership rights is not that of determining the boundaries of exclusive titles, but rather of disentangling and reweaving a complex set of ownership relations. Second, the relevant contrast to which the state of nature vs. civil condition distinction refers is not a contrast between a situation of no political authority and one with political authority. It is, rather, a contrast between a society that had many different political authorities and one in which only the state had political authority.
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