Article contents
Kant’s Political Zweckmässigkeit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2015
Abstract
While Kant’s political writings employ a teleological language, the exact benefit of such language to his politics is far from clear. Against recent interpretations of Kant’s political thought, which downplay or dismiss the role of teleology, I restore Zweckmässigkeit to its place in Kant’s politics as a theoretically and practically useful material principle, and show that a teleological perspective complements the perspective stipulated by the formal principle of Recht. By means of a systematic reconstruction of what I call ‘political Zweckmässigkeit’, we gain a fuller portrayal of and a valuable insight into Kant’s political thought.
Keywords
- Type
- Articles
- Information
- Copyright
- © Kantian Review 2015
References
- 2
- Cited by