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  • 12 - ‘The Civil Constitution in Every State Shall Be a Republican One’

  • Edited by Karl Ameriks
  • Otfried Höffe, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Book:
    Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy
    Published online:
    13 November 2009
    Print publication:
    27 April 2009, pp 246-264

  • Summary

    Immanuel Kant interprets the fundamental political opposition between war and peace in philosophical terms as essentially a question of right. He formulates a challenging and emphatic concept of peace that treats any political establishment of peace that is essentially based upon superior power and deterrent threat as a merely negative peace, and thus simply as a continuation of the state of war. Kant claims that all men who can mutually affect one another must belong to some civil constitution. According to Kant, a republican constitution is one that is established, first on principles of the freedom of the members of a society (as individuals), second on principles of the dependence of all upon a single common legislation (as subjects), and third on the law of their equality (as citizens of a state). The principle of equality is intimately connected with the coordination of social action through universally acknowledged laws.