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Kant 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 ISBN 978-3-319-42657-0 ISBN 978-3-319-42658-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42658-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957736 © Th e Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th e Author(s) 2016 Th is work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Th is Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature Th e registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Th e registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland 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. v vi Preface 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- Preface vii 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 ix x Contents 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 xi
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