Abstract:Force and Freedom by Arthur Ripstein provides a comprehensive account of the modern legal system on a Kantian basis, reaching from private law to public international law. The legal system is presented as a coherent whole, solely based on the idea of equal freedom. Ripstein’s fundamental claim is twofold: first, the Kantian foundation is hermeneutically superior to alternative approaches to understanding the normative structure of the legal system; second, the modern legal system, due to its foundation in equal freedom, resides in reason and is thus normatively superior to alternative ideas of social ordering. Such a great work is typically subject to a wide range of objections. Some of them are raised in contributions to Freedom and Force, edited by Sari Kisilevsky and Martin Stone. This review essay attempts to explain Ripstein’s basic line of thought in Force and Freedom and to defend his account against some mistaken, but nevertheless illuminating, arguments from his critics in Freedom and Force. It then raises two further concerns, one internal, regarding the idea of justice in contractual exchange, and one external, regarding the cogency of a Kantian legitimation for the modern welfare state.

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公民自由的合法性

摘要：亚瑟·里普斯坦 (Arthur Ripstein) 的《力量与自由》(Force and Freedom) 以康德主义为基础，对现代法律体系进行了全面阐述，从私法到国际公法。法律体系作为一个连贯的整体呈现，完全基于平等自由的理念。里普斯坦的基本主张有两个方面：第一，康德基础在解释学上优于其他理解法律体系规范结构的方法；其次，现代法律体系由于其平等自由的基础，存在于理性中，因此在规范上优于其他社会秩序观念。如此伟大的作品通常会受到广泛的反对。其中一些是在对自由与力量的贡献中提出的，由 Sari Kisilevsky 和 ​​Martin Stone 编辑。这篇评论文章试图解释里普斯坦在《力量与自由》中的基本思路，并为他的观点辩护，反对他在《自由与力量》中的批评者提出的一些错误但仍然具有启发性的论点。然后它提出了两个进一步的问题，一个是内部的，关于契约交换中的正义理念，另一个是外部的，关于现代福利国家的康德合法化的说服力。