Duty, justice and coercion in Kant’s juridical cosmopolitanism
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v20i1p75-90Keywords:
cosmopolitanism, republicanism, society, civil union, Kant, Sieyès, GentzAbstract
The article aims at giving an account of the coercive weakness of Kant’s cosmopolitan right and at understanding the mechanisms proposed to spread the republican forma regiminis throughout the earth. With this goal, I will analyze the Kantian model of the transition from the state of nature, t.i. a social state, to the civil union as a step that brings human beings from the empirical to the intelligible realm. I will attempt to gauge the distance between right as a product based on reason and right as a political instrument intended to reduce the effects of social inequality. The paper discusses the relationship between theory and practice regarding the scope of right, concluding that Kant always gives priority to the first over the second, what encourages considering the idea of a cosmopolitan federation States as a consequence of the mere existence of a true single republic on the earth.Downloads
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