Table Of ContentKant
edited by
andrea faggion
nuria sánchez madrid
alessandro pinzani
and
Social
Policies
Kant and Social Policies
Andrea F aggion • Alessandro Pinzani • Nuria Sánchez M adrid
Editors
Kant and Social
Policies
Editors
Andrea Faggion Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Departamento de Filosofi a Faculty of Philosophy
Universidade Estadual de Londrina Universidad Complutense of Madrid
Londrina , Paraná , Brazil Majadahonda , Spain
Alessandro Pinzani
Centro de Filosofi a e Ciências Humanas
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Florianopolis , Santa Catarina , Brazil
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Prefa ce
Th is volume aims at exploring the potentiality of Kant’s political and
juridical philosophy to cast light over current social challenges and pol-
icy making at a global scale. Th e contributions focus on key issues of
Kant’s political theory as the philosophical foundation of human rights,
the account of the right to citizenship, social dynamics and the scope
of global justice, with the intent to open up new avenues in the fi eld of
Kantian studies. Th e authors of the volume share the impression that
Kant’s republicanism should not be viewed as a historical feature that
should be seen nowadays as irremediably obsolete and unable to help-
fully inspire current policies. Nevertheless, they do not will to oversee
the inner contradictions and tensions that Kant’s political model entails.
Th e texts gathered in this book tackle from a Kantian point of view
issues such as poverty and economic redistribution, the material condi-
tions for citizenship and the nature of human rights. Th e will to establish
an honest dialogue with Kant’s key republican tenets has guided the com-
position of the volume. Most contributions were previously discussed in
a workshop held at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in
Florianópolis, where authors had the chance to exchange remarks and
submit their early drafts to critics. Th is experience was extremely help-
ful and proved that the confrontation of Kant’s thought with empirical
social concerns of our global world is a still neglected path that needs to
be taken.
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Scholars such as John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Th omas Pogge or
Onora O’Neill are often mentioned and considered a clue reference
by the authors, insofar as they acted as forerunners of the approach
taken by this volume. Taking into account the hermeneutical proposal
of these scholars, each author attempts to unfold and better under-
stand some ambiguous remarks by Kant or to focus on misunderstood
excerpts from his writings, aiming at broadening the traditional out-
look about this thinker. As a result, the prevailing tone in these texts
is one of questioning, critically discussing and tentatively interpreting
rather than one of closed argumentation, since most chapters contain
groundbreaking approaches regarding the basis of a form of republi-
canism that might be conscious of the troubles, which hunt a complex
society.
Th e title of the volume was inspired by the challenge to consider
Kant as our contemporary, leaving aside the eff orts to exempt and jus-
tify a high esteemed thinker before any responsibility or nonchalance
regarding sensitive issues as poverty relief, the right to property, the
problems connected with the republican state model or the legitimacy
to defend a passive concept of citizenship. Th e discussion framework
that gave birth to the table of contents helps to grasp a main guideline
through these pages, that is, the will to gain an appraisal of a classical
thinker that does not enclose him into the comfortable walls of history
of philosophy. Kant has inspired a large number of theoretical eff orts for
boosting human autonomy and emancipation from a manifold slavery,
but scholars have rarely reviewed the shortcomings that this thinker
shows as he deals with the boundaries of citizenship or the rights of
worse-off people.
Th is matter of fact, which represents a source of contradictions, led the
gathered authors to dissect the reasons that prevent Kant to support more
audacious positions in the social and political fi eld. Most of the posi-
tions defended by Kant stem and are understandable from his own social
context. Yet others appear more puzzling and diffi cult to explain. Some
contributors maintain the actuality of our thinker, while others prefer to
highlight the “dark side” of his republicanism. Yet all authors are con-
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scious that they face a sound theory of political freedom and statehood,
which raises key questions to hold the burden of our times.
May 2015
Andrea Faggion
Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
Alessandro Pinzani
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Contents
1 Kant on Citizenship, Society, and Redistributive Justice 1
Susan Meld Shell
2 Th e State Looks Down: Some Reassessments of Kant’s
Appraisal of Citizenship 25
Alessandro Pinzani and Nuria Sánchez Madrid
3 Kant For and Against Human Rights 49
Aguinaldo Pavão and Andrea Faggion
4 Th e Place of Sociality: Models of Intersubjectivity
According to Kant 65
Alberto Pirni
5 Rawls Vs. Nozick Vs. Kant on Domestic Economic
Justice 93
Helga Varden
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6 Rawls and Kant on Compliance with International
Laws of Justice 125
Faviola Rivera Castro
7 Kant and Public Education for Enhancing Moral
Virtue: Th e Necessary Conditions for Ensuring
Enlightened Patriotism 149
Joel Th iago Klein
Index 175
Notes on Contributors
Andrea Luisa Bucchile Faggion is Associate Professor at the Department of
Philosophy of the State University of Londrina (Brazil). She has published arti-
cles, book chapters, and book reviews about Kant’s philosophy and contributed
to Congress Proceedings. She has been Visiting Researcher at the University of
Colorado at Boulder (USA), and at the State University of Campinas (Brazil).
She is member of the Brazilian Kant Society, Brazilian Society for Analytic
Philosophy, Latin American Association for Analytic Philosophy, and external
member of the Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.
Nuria Sánchez Madrid i s Associated Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of
the University Complutense of Madrid, member of the CFUL (Lisbon) and of
the IREPH of the University of Paris-Ouest. She is author of A civilizaçâo como
destino : Kant e as formas da civilizaçâo, Florianópolis, NEFIPonline (2016) and
editor with Larry Krasnoff and Paula Satne of K ant ’s Doctrine of Right in the
Twenty-First Century , University of Wales Press, forthcoming.
Susan Meld Shell i s professor at the Department of Political Science of Boston
College. She is currently Chair of the Department. She is the author of K ant and
the Limits of Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2009), Th e Embodiment of
Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community (University of Chicago Press,
(1996), Th e Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant’s Philosophy and Politics (University
of Toronto Press, 1980). She is also the co-editor (with Robert Faulkner) of
America at Risk: Th reats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
(University of Michigan Press, 2009). She has also w ritten on Rousseau, German
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