Kant's Republicanism and the Highest Political Good

Abstract

Despite the recent surge of interest in the Republican tradition, through the work of Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner among others, Kant’s role in the development of this tradition is much less well appreciated, until recently his work having been mainly read as belonging to the Liberal tradition. The panel aims to explore recent republican readings of Kant’s legal and political philosophy, paying special attention to the following sorts of questions: How do republican readings diverge from more traditionally liberal interpretations of Kant, and with what results? Is Kant’s account of basic rights comprehensively republican in character, or does it present a mixed picture? What does a republican interpretation of Kant entail for the traditionally understood division between morality and law? What are the consequences of this re-interpretation for international law and theories of perpetual peace?

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