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Pinheiro Walla, Alice:
When the strictest right is the greatest wrong: Kant on Fairness.
In: Estudos Kantianos.
Vol. 3
(2015)
Issue 1
.
ISSN 2318-0501
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In this paper, I put forward an interpretation of the Kantian state that offers an alternative to the traditional minimalist and to recent welfare interpretations of the Kantian state. I show that although the Kantian state has no duty to redistribute, Kant’s conception of equity or fairness (Billigkeit, MS RL VI: 234) allows the state to recognize redistribution as belonging to the ideal republic (republica noumenon), towards which all states have a non-coercible obligation to strive. I back up my interpretation with passages of the Metaphysics of Morals and of Kant’s lectures in which Kant questions the character of the duty of beneficence as a meritorious duty, given the fact that need is often the result of previous injustice of governments. The problem is that although the destitute have a right to collective aid, unlike strict right, these rights cannot be juridically enforced. This has led to the wrong conclusion that the state or the supreme commander has a duty of virtue towards its subjects and that the poor have no right to aid.
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Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Former Professors > Junior Professor Political Philosophy - Juniorprof. Dr. Alice Pinheiro Walla Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy > Junior Professor Political Philosophy Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Former Professors |
Result of work at the UBT: | No |
DDC Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and psychology > 100 Philosophy |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2017 09:55 |
Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2017 09:55 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/40929 |