The Limits of Kantianism Towards A Project Of Global Justice

Daniel Nunes Pereira

doi:10.22151/politikon.20.8

Authors

Daniel Nunes Pereira Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.20.8

Keywords:

Kant, Global Justice, Cosmopolitanism, Human Rights, Morality

Abstract

Western societies believe they can improve human settlements all around the world by universal standards of justice, concerning mainly the distribution of wealth and sound democratic institutions. Such concern arises from the reflections regarding the hodiernal world condition, which is, at large, vile and unjust. These two ways of improving human condition have their mains ideas established on the work of Immanuel Kant. This paper intends, therefore, to understand and foresee the limits and boundaries of these ideas specifically on the contemporary world – plural, polysemic and filled with theoretical uncertainties.

Author Biography

Daniel Nunes Pereira, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Daniel Nunes Pereira, 26, is M.A candidate in Political Science and L.L.M. candidate in Sociology & Jurisprudence, both at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil. He received his Bachelor in Jurisprudence at Universidade Federal Fluminense in 2010, and on the same year attended at CPE in European History at the Universiteit Utrecht (U.U.) in Netherlands. His interests and fields of research include Political Theology, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.

English revision: Marcos Ceia; Email: marcos.e.teixeira@gmail.com.