Poverty and Property: Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Kantian Republican Approach
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2017.057.04Keywords:
Political Freedom, Property, Poverty, RepublicAbstract
The aim of this paper is to show that poverty is, for Kant, the flipside of a social distribution of acquired property that is incompatible with the equal freedom of all according to universal laws. The problem with poverty is not a matter of charity or each person’s lax ethical duties. Nor is it a matter of a law of necessity which would enable the poor to steal when their basic needs are not met. Rather, it is a structural problem in the formation of a state, a fatal flaw in the design of public institutions, which are unable to set up a social life that is in line with reciprocity in external freedom of all.
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