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Immanuel Kant’s Globalization Program

Dan Corjescu looks at how Kant wanted to unite the world.

Globalization, democracy, and migration are themes which continually ignite debate, both scholarly and non-scholarly. None of this is new. In his own inimitable way, the German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) touched upon all these political hot topics, and more.

Over the last few decades Kant’s political writings have been increasingly appreciated by political philosophers in the English-speaking world. This acknowledgement was given a significant boost by John Rawls in his A Theory of Justice (1971) and The Law of Peoples (1993).

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