Philosophy of Law by I. Kant: an authentic interpretation

The article examines the Philosophy of Law by I. Kant in the context of his epistemology and ethics. The article provides material that has often been ignored by Russian researchers. In our and European literature, it is customary to consider Kant’s political and legal views as a philosophical generalization of the ideas of the Great French Revolution, which does not raise objections. At the same time, Kant’s liberalism was very contradictory and inconsistent, which is understandable: as an employee of the Prussian Monarchy (and a professor at the University of Konigsberg is a civil servant), he was obliged to coordinate his views with the existing absolutism in the country. Kant’s views on revolution, on the relationship between the individual and the state, in some places quite fit into the framework of typical authoritarianism. New material is given on Kant’s views on the problem of the form of the state.