Morality, Voluntary Laws, and State Neutrality

Kantian political philosophies stress that a state ought to be “neutral” (Rawls), “minimal” (Nozick), or “public” (Ripstein’s Kant), as part of its duty respect citizens’ freedom pursue whatever ends these citizens find valuable. States are under merely secure independence from each other and the state. In contrast, morality contends individuals subject certain “obligatory” ends, viz., emerge intrinsic value personhood autonomy. some cases, hindering one’s is necessary for promoting ends. This essay describes circumstances in which legal right interfere with property body obligatory justified, even though such compromises states’ neutrality. description sheds new light on relation between optimal system (“Right”) (“Virtue”) justice truth.