Kantian Right and Poverty Relief

Kantian Right and the Categorical Imperative: Response to Willaschek

In his 2009 article ‘Right and Coercion,’ Marcus Willaschek argues that the Categorical Imperative and the Universal Principle of Right are conceptually independent of one another because (1) the concept of right and the authorization to use coercion are analytically connected in Kant’s ‘Doctrine of Right’, but (2) the authorization to coerce cannot be derived from the Categorical Imperative. G...

A Kantian Defense of the Right to Health Care -Draft-

In Kantian political philosophy external freedom, understood as the ability to take up means toward the attainment of ends we have set for ourselves, is secured through the three branches of the republican state. Indeed, the state is necessary for the exercise of this freedom. However, in order to provide a condition consistent with the original contract, further institutions are required; in t...

Evolution and Kantian morality

Rawls and Kantian Constructivism

Problems of Rural Medical Relief in India. Poverty Amidst Plenty