THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF LAW IN PHILOSOPHY CRITICAL OF KANT

This article presents the three dimensions of the Law within the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant and its specifications. First will be seen as freedom is expressed by a practical and rational action, as opposed to knowledge of traditional metaphysics until then. Human autonomy allows freedom is possible, both in the moral world, as in the State. Later this work will demonstrate the division of Law in the writings of Kant, in public Law and natural Law. While the former is clearly identified with the rules issued by authorities in three levels (the law of the State, the law of nations and cosmopolitan law), the second has two different meanings: the natural legislation while private law, without existence of the State and the innate natural law (Naturrecht), the realization of freedom, and the ultimate foundation of both the private and the public, in whatever their level