Hence,
according to the logical principle of contradiction, all right is
accompanied with an implied title or warrant to bring compulsion to
bear on any one who may violate it in fact.
E. Strict Right may be also Represented as the Possibility
of a Universal Reciprocal Compulsion in harmony with
the Freedom of All according to Universal Laws.
This proposition means the right is not to be regarded as composed
of two different elements- obligation according to a law, and a
title on the part of one who has bound another by his own free
choice to compel him to perform. But it imports that the conception of
right may be viewed as consisting immediately in the possibility of
a universal reciprocal compulsion, in harmony with the freedom of all.
As right in general has for its object only what is external in
actions, strict right, as that with which nothing ethical is
intermingled, requires no other motives of action than those that
are merely external; for it is then pure right and is unmixed with any
prescriptions of virtue. A strict right, then, in the exact sense of
the term, is that which alone can be called wholly external. Now
such right is founded, no doubt, upon the consciousness of the
obligation of every individual according to the law; but if it is to
be pure as such, it neither may nor should refer to this consciousness
as a motive by which to determine the free act of the will.
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