Against Kantian Statism

Abstract

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Kant on punishment and poverty

“…problem of indeterminacy" (Ebels-Duggan, 2012, p. 898). 17 Christmas (2021) has also argued that this is false: it is conceptually possible, though unlikely, that a set of objective rules governing property rights can emerge as social conventions in the state of nature. If Christmas is correct, then this undermines the Kantian claim that the state is necessary for the protection of rights.…”