Kant, coercion, and the legitimation of inequality

Abstract

Immanuel Kant's political philosophy has enjoyed renewed attention as an egalitarian alternative to contemporary inequality since it seems to uncompromisingly reassert the primacy of the state over the economy, enabling it to defend the modern welfare state against encroaching neoliberal markets.

Is International Relations Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

“…In Western political philosophy, Kant believed that the significant losses brought about by the war between countries, the development of civil society and human rationality would eventually make the relationship between countries transition from a Hobbesian state of nature to a state of law, to achieve the goal of "permanent peace" (Babasyan 2017). McKean (2019) claimed that Kant's thought of permanent peace directly influences the development of the theory of international relations of the republic and Liberalism in later generations, that is, the Democratic Peace Theory to be discussed later.…”