Kant's Political Legacy

Luigi Caranti

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This book focuses on Kant’s analysis of three issues crucial for contemporary politics. Starting from a new reading of Kant’s account of our innate right to freedom, it highlights how a Kantian foundation of human rights, properly understood and modified where necessary, appears more promising than the foundational arguments currently offered by philosophers. It then compares Kant’s model for peace with the apparently similar model of democratic peace to show that the two are profoundly different in content and in quality. The book concludes in analysis of Kant’s controversial view of history to rescue it from the idea that his belief in progress is at best over-optimistic and at worst dogmatic.

 

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Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie politique
• Political
• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783169818
• Langue: English

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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY NOW
Chief Editor of the Series:
Howard Williams, Aberystwyth University, Wales
Associate Editors:
Wolfgang Kersting, University of Kiel, Germany Steven B. Smith, Yale University, USA Peter Nicholson, University of York, England Renato Cristi, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Political Philosophy Now is a series which deals with authors, topics and periods in political philosophy from the perspective of their relevance to current debates. The series presents a spread of subjects and points of view from various traditions which include European and New World debates in political philosophy.
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY NOW
Kant’s Political Legacy
Human Rights, Peace, Progress
Luigi Caranti
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
© Luigi Caranti, 2019
First edition published in hardback, 2017
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Human Rights
1 Kant’s Theory of Human Rights
2 Human Rights: the Contemporary Debate
3 The Foundation of Human Rights: The Dignity Approach
Part II: Peace
4 The Kantian Model
5 Democratic Peace Theory
6 The Two Models Compared
Part III: Progress
7 Kant’s Early Teleology in Idea
8 To Perpetual Peace : A Secular Guarantee of Progress?
9 Progress and Political Agency
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
I owe gratitude to many friends and colleagues for this book, and those cited here are a small subset of the people whose help should be acknowledged. Sebastiano Maffettone, Alessandro Ferarra, Allen Buchanan, John Tasioulas and others offered valuable critical comments on part I . Michael Doyle, Bruce Russett, Daniele Archibugi, Pauline Kleingeld, Paul Guyer, Massimo Mori, Thomas Pogge and, again, many others contributed to the chapters collected in part II . In particular, I greatly profited from the criticisms I received from Joshua Cohen and his students at the Stanford Political Science Workshop. Alessandro Pinzani deserves a special mention for his help not only with part III , but for reading and commenting on the whole book, providing precious challenges to my reading on Kant when we disagreed and extra reasons to strengthen the points where we shared similar views. All the guests and participants of the Colloquium on Philosophy and Global Affairs at the University of Catania indirectly helped to shape single theses defended in the book, whose preparatory work began, perhaps not accidentally, when the Colloquium was born (2010). In a similar fashion, I profited from the discussions with Kant scholars on occasion of the various editions of the Multilateral Kant – Colloquium and of the Clélia Martins Kant – Colloquium held in Marilia (São Paulo, Brazil). I would also like to thank some of my students, at LUISS and at the University of Catania, who attended my graduate seminar on human rights. Special gratitude goes to my PhD student Nunzio Alì who followed and supported the development of my work. Immense gratitude goes to my family for the multiform emotional support and for the time they concede me to follow my interests.
Besides people, I owe gratitude to institutions, in particular to the European Commission that enabled two years of study for part II at Columbia University through a Marie Curie Global Fellowship.
Some of the chapters of this book appeared in different form in previous publications. A shortened version of chapter 1 appeared in the Routledge Handbook for Human Rights (Taylor & Francis 2011), some of the theses offered in part II appeared recently in a paper published in the Journal of Political Philosophy (many thanks, incidentally, to its anonymous referees) and in my book La pace fraintesa (Rubbettino 2012), while chapter 8 appeared in the collective volume Politics and Teleology in Kant (UWP 2014) edited by Paul Formosa, Avery Goldman and Tatiana Patrone. Thanks to all publishers for their permission to reprint.
List of Abbreviations
References to Kant’s works follow the Akademie pagination. The list of abbreviation is provided below. The translation of Kant’s political writings used in this book is that of H. B. Nisbet in H. Reiss (ed.), Kant, Political Writings (New York, 1991). For the parts not covered by Reiss’s edition, I use the Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant.
Anth
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht (AA 07). Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View . Translated by R. B. Louden in CE: Kant, I. (2007) Anthropology, History, and Education , G. Zöller and R. B. Louden, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Br
Briefe (AA 10–13). Correspondence . A selection from these volumes is translated by A. Zweig in CE: Kant, I. (1999) Correspondence , A. Zweig, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
EaD
Das Ende aller Dinge (AA 08). The End of All Things. Translated by A. W. Wood in CE: Kant, I. (1996) Religion and Rational Theology , A. W. Wood and G. di Giovanni, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
EEKU
Erste Einleitung in die Kritik der Urteilskraft (AA 20). First Introduction to the Critique of the Power of Judgment . Translated by P. Guyer and E. Matthews in CE: Kant, I. (2000) Critique of the Power of Judgment , P. Guyer, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
GMS
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (AA 04). Groundwork of the Metatphysiocs of Morals . Translated by M. J. Gregor in CE: Kant, I. (1996) Practical Philosophy , M. J. Gregor, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
GSE
Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen (AA 02). Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime . Translated by P. Guyer in CE: Anthropology, History, and Education .
IaG
Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht (AA 08). ‘Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim’. Translated by A. W. Wood in CE: Anthropology, History, and Education .
KpV
Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (AA 05). Critique of Practical Reason . Translated by M. J. Gregor in CE: Practical Philosophy .
KrV
Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Critique of Pure Reason . Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (1965) (New York: Saint Martin’s Press).
KU
Kritik der Urteilskraft (AA 05). Critique of the Power of Judgment . Translated by P. Guyer and E. Matthews in CE: Critique of the Power of Judgment .
Log
Logik (AA 09). The Jäsche Logic . Translated by J. M. Young in CE: Kant, I. (1992) Lectures on Logic , J. M. Young, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
MAM
Mutmaßlicher Anfang der Menschheitsgeschichte (AA 08). Conjectural Beginning of Human History . Translated by A. W. Wood in CE: Anthropology, History, and Education .
MS
Die Metaphysik der Sitten (AA 06). The Metaphysics of Morals . Translated by M. J. Gregor in CE: Practical Philosophy .
RL
Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre (AA 06). Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right.
TL
Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre (AA 06). Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Virtue .
Nach
Nachschrift zu Christian Gottlieb Mielckes Littauisch-deutschem und deutsch-littauischem Wörterbuch (AA 08). Postscript to Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Lithauanian-German and German-Lithuanian Dictionary. Translated by G. Zöller in CE: Anthropology, History, and Education .
Päd
Pädagogik (AA 09). Lectures on Pedagogy . Translated by R. B. Louden in CE: Anthropology, History, and Education .
Refl
Reflexion (AA 14–19). Reflections . A selection from these volumes is translated by C. Bowman, P. Guyer and F. Rauscher in CE: Kant, I. (2005) Notes and Fragments , P. Guyer, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
RezHufeland
Recension von Gottlieb Hufeland’s Versuch über den Grundsatz des Naturrechts (AA 08). Review of Gottlieb Hufeland’s Essay on the Principles of Natural Right . Translated by A. W. Wood in CE: Practical Philosophy .
RGV
Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft (AA 06). Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason . Translated by G. di Giovanni in CE: Religion and Rational Theology.
SF
Der Streit der Fakultäten (AA 07). The Conflict of the Faculties . Translated by M. J. Gregor and R. Anchor in CE: Religion and Rational Theology .
TP
Über den Gemeinspruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis (AA 08). On the Common Saying: That may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice . Translated by M. J. Gre