Leaving the State of Nature. Strengths and Limits of Kant’s Transformation of the Social Contract Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21820833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helga Varden (0009-0003-2362-1934, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1-2024 |
| Pages | 19-42 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1869-3016 • E-ISSN: 2196-2103 |
| Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3224/zpth.v15i1.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4404965937 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
I first outline how Kant’s ideal account of rightful external freedom transforms the social contract tradition as found in the works of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, before proposing a way to see Kant’s two-layered non-ideal theory as complementing his ideal theory of rightful freedom. This enables us to envision a conception of rightful external freedom and of rightful human freedom in particular societies. These arguments also show us the importance of realizing that the four possible political conditions for Kant – anarchy, barbarism, despotism, and republic – are ideas of reason, which means that they are never perfectly realized. Hence, historical societies are not either in the state of nature or in civil society, and in historical republics, there are pockets of injustice or pockets devoid of justice that can only be captured by means of one of the three political ideas that are not constitutive of the republican legal-political framework
Barbarism · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Injustice · Law and economics · Political freedom · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social contract · Sociology · State of nature · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
Force and Freedom
The Moral Habitat
Kant on Civil Society and Welfare
Kant's Non-Absolutist Conception of Political Legitimacy – How Public Right ‘Concludes’ Private Right in the “Doctrine of Right”
Kant's Theory of Labour
Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness
Rawls Vs. Nozick Vs. Kant on Domestic Economic Justice
The Lockean ‘Enough-and-as-Good’ Proviso
Kant's Theory of Justice
Immanuel Kant
A Kantian Critique of the Care Tradition
Kant on Race and Barbarism
Kant's Non-Voluntarist Conception of Political Obligations
Sex, Love, and Gender
Towards a Kantian theory of philosophical education and wisdom
Reason, Right, and Revolution
The Law of Humanity and the Limits of State Power
John Locke Two Treatises of Government
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |