Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
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Tamara Jugov
Abstract
This paper offers a novel reading of Immanuel Kant’s mature political philosophy. It argues that Kant’s doctrine of right is best understood as dealing with the question of how to justify practices of social power. It thereby suggests that the main object of Kant’s doctrine of right should be read in terms of individuals’ higher order power of free choice and action (“Willkür”). It then argues that the main normative problem Kant discusses in the doctrine of right is the problem of domination. While Kant must allow persons the exercises of their capacities for free choice and action for reasons of freedom, the structural upshots of such exercises by a multitude of empirically interconnected persons leads to a structure of private right, which is normatively problematic. This paper suggests interpreting this problem as one of structural domination. This reading sheds new light on Kant’s institutional theory of global justice. It enables us to better understand Kant’s theory of global institutionalization, particularly with regard to the question of why national and global institutionalization are so important in Kant’s theory and with regard to the question of what type of law cosmopolitan law is.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Vorwort des Herausgebers
- An Exercise in Global Philosophy
- I: Global Justice – 全球正义
- A Vindication of Distributive Justice
- Principles of Justice in a Changing World Order
- Global Justice: A Utopia and Concern of Humanitarianism
- On the Justifications of Contemporary Global Justice Theories
- Political Reconciliation in Light of Global Injustices
- The Interdependence of Domestic and Global Justice
- Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
- The Ethical Constraint on War
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- The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue
- How to Justify Principles of Justice
- Universalism vs. “All Under Heaven” (Tianxia / 天下) – Kant in China
- Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xia
- III: Global Justice and Progress – 全球正义与进步
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- Progress and Human Rights Justice as Evaluating Criteria for Global Developments
- Justice in Anthropocentrism. An Attitude Towards Contemporary Human Beings and Their Intellectual Crisis
- Towards a Transcultural Concept of Justice Based on Self-respect
- Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
- Moral Progress: Between Justification and Innovation
- Forms of Injustice and Regression
- Compulsive Growth and the Dynamics of “Perverted Progress”
- IV: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾萃
- Subjekt und Person: Zwei Selbst-Bilder des modernen Menschen in kulturübergreifender Perspektive
- Heideggerian Existence after Being and Time: In the Nameless ─ and a Brief Comparison of Namelessness and the Underlying Philosophy of Language between Heideggerian and Buddhist Perspectives
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Vorwort des Herausgebers
- An Exercise in Global Philosophy
- I: Global Justice – 全球正义
- A Vindication of Distributive Justice
- Principles of Justice in a Changing World Order
- Global Justice: A Utopia and Concern of Humanitarianism
- On the Justifications of Contemporary Global Justice Theories
- Political Reconciliation in Light of Global Injustices
- The Interdependence of Domestic and Global Justice
- Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
- The Ethical Constraint on War
- II: Global Philosophy – 全球哲学
- Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics
- The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue
- How to Justify Principles of Justice
- Universalism vs. “All Under Heaven” (Tianxia / 天下) – Kant in China
- Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xia
- III: Global Justice and Progress – 全球正义与进步
- Rethinking Progress Today
- Progress and Human Rights Justice as Evaluating Criteria for Global Developments
- Justice in Anthropocentrism. An Attitude Towards Contemporary Human Beings and Their Intellectual Crisis
- Towards a Transcultural Concept of Justice Based on Self-respect
- Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
- Moral Progress: Between Justification and Innovation
- Forms of Injustice and Regression
- Compulsive Growth and the Dynamics of “Perverted Progress”
- IV: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾萃
- Subjekt und Person: Zwei Selbst-Bilder des modernen Menschen in kulturübergreifender Perspektive
- Heideggerian Existence after Being and Time: In the Nameless ─ and a Brief Comparison of Namelessness and the Underlying Philosophy of Language between Heideggerian and Buddhist Perspectives
