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Patriotism, Poverty, and Global Justice: A Kantian Engagement with Pauline Kleingeld's Kant and Cosmopolitanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2014

Helga Varden
Helga Varden*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Email: hvarden@illinois.edu
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Abstract

In this article I critically engage some of the philosophical ideas Kleingeld presents in Kant and Cosmopolitanism, namely patriotism, poverty and global justice. Against Kleingeld, I propose, first, that perhaps democracy is less important and affectionate love more so to both Kant himself as well as to an account that can successfully refute a Bernard Williams style ‘one-thought-too-many’ objection to Kantian patriotism; second, that guaranteeing unconditional poverty relief for all its citizens is constitutive of the minimally just state for Kant; and, third, that there seem to be more disanalogies between the domestic and the global public authorities in Kant's account of right than Kleingeld's interpretation allows for.

Keywords

Pauline KleingeldKant's Doctrine of Rightcosmopolitanismpovertyglobal justicepatriotism
Type
Critical Exchange
Information
Kantian Review , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , July 2014 , pp. 251 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © Kantian Review 2014 

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