POTENTIAL OF THE KANTIAN NOTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Journal: Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research
Year: 2020

Purpose. This paper aims to show how the views of Kant persist in the modern debate on social justice and to outline the practical and political potential contained in his understanding of a just state system and international justice. To that end, I will present what Kant meant by a just state system and just relationships between states. Then, I will reference his understanding of social justice against three fundamental models of social justice thus far established in the philosophical tradit