I do not really understand the concept of “a priori.”
I particularly enjoyed Paragraph 8 on page 44 about having something external as one’s own only in a civil condition, however the next paragraph on possession provisionally was confusing.
I really did not understand the idea behind Section II’s paragraph 19 on page 57.
Section III on “rights to persons akin to rights to things” was particularly interesting.
I found Kant’s discussion of contracts to be rather repetitious. In fact, the majority of the second section of Part I seemed needlessly repetitious as it defined each form of contract, all of which are at their simplest levels more or less defined by the same means.
Part II, which addressed the ideas of the public right, I found extremely difficult to read as it was composed significantly of definitions which are pretty well known. The discussion of these concepts, many of which I already understood, eventually led me to discontinue reading this part of Kant’s work and move on to the next part.
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I had a really difficult time with "a priori" too. Maybe you already picked up on this, but it means "prior" or "beforehand." :)
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