Kantian Right and Poverty Relief

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  • Andrea Faggion Universidade Estadual de Londrina/Universidade Estadual de Maringá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2014v13n2p283

Abstract

I have two goals in this paper. First, I want to determine whether Kant’s justification for state programs for poverty relief in The Doctrine of Right is based on 1) Kantian duties of virtue,  2) Kantian duties of right, or instead merely on 3) instrumental arguments regarding the preservation of a State as such.  I claim that the last alternative is the correct one. Second, I will argue, against Kant himself, that even his merely instrumental arguments for public programs for poverty relief are ruled out by his doctrine of right. My conclusion is that, perhaps surprisingly, the only genuinely Kantian way to provide poverty relief is privately, just as Libertarians have argued.


Author Biography

Andrea Faggion, Universidade Estadual de Londrina/Universidade Estadual de Maringá

Doutora em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas em 2007. Professora do Departamento de Filosofia da UEL, do programa de mestrado em filosofia da mesma instituição e do programa de mestrado em filosofia da UEM.

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2014-12-17

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2014)

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