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The Moral Standing of the State in International Politics, livre ebook

100

pages
English
Ebooks
2021

Écrit par
Milla Emilia Vaha

Publié par
University of Wales Press

100

pages
English
Ebooks
2021

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Description

Kant’s moral and political philosophy has been important in developing ethical thinking in international relations. This study argues that his theory of the state is crucially important for understanding the moral agency of the state as it is discussed in contemporary debates. For Kant, it is argued that the state has not only duties but also, controversially, inalienable rights that ground its relationship to its citizens and to other states. Most importantly, the state – regardless of its governmental form or factual behaviour – has a right to exist as a state. The Kantian account provided, therefore, explores not only the moral agency but also the moral standing of the state, examining the status of different kinds of states in world politics and expectations towards their ethical behaviour. Every state has a moral standing that must be respected in a morally imperfect world gradually transforming towards the ideal condition of perpetual peace.

Note on references and translations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Moral Standing Problem in the study of world politics
Chapter Two: Kant and the metaethical conception of the state
Chapter Three: As to what relations among human beings and states ought to be
Chapter Four: Rights and duties of the state
Chapter Five: Order and justice in the world of imperfect states
Chapter Six: On contested continuity of states
Conclusions
Bibliography

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