KANT’S CRITICISM OF EUROPE AN COLONIALISM: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF COSMOPOLITAN RIGHT Cover Image

KANT’S CRITICISM OF EUROPE AN COLONIALISM: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF COSMOPOLITAN RIGHT
KANT’S CRITICISM OF EUROPE AN COLONIALISM: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF COSMOPOLITAN RIGHT

Author(s): Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Economic policy, International relations/trade
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: Kant; colonialism; non-state people; cosmopolitanism; trade;

Summary/Abstract: This paper tackles Kant’s juridical arguments for criticizing European colonialist practices, taking into account some recent accounts of this issue given by Kant scholars as Ripstein, Cavallar, Flikschuh, Stilz and Vanhaute. First, I focus on Kant’s grounding of cosmopolitan union as a juridical requirement stemming of the systematic character of the rational doctrine of right. Second, I pay attention to Kant’s remarks about how the European nations ought to establish commercial relations with other nations in the world and how they should approach non-state people. I draw the conclusion that Kant’s juridical-political writings should be consider as a forerunning corpus for furthering an anti-colonialist mind in the European philosophy of Enlightenment.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 94
  • Page Range: 71-82
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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