Aspects of Kant's Account of Global Justice

Abstract

Kant's political philosophy raises a set of textual puzzles, which papers in this panel attempt to address. Some such claims are methodological. For instance, in "Perpetual Peace", Kant seems to abandon the idea of a world republic for empirical considerations, despite the fact that he also claimed it was the right idea in theory and that a right idea should not be abandoned for empirical reasons. Moreover, the formal character of Kant's moral philosophy raises difficulties for an appropriate account of domination, which would be crucial for Kant's republicanism. Other puzzles have a normative character, rather than being methodological. For example, Kant's view of innate right with its three authorisations raises the question of its legal status. His view of the duty to enter the civil condition as a moral duty and not as a rule of prudence prompts an important question about its justification. Finally, Kant's claim that taxation can become an unjust burdening of the people by the government raises the puzzle of the implicit standard of justice with which he works in that context.

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Kant, Material Domination, and Global Justice	View Paper Details
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