Evaluating the Redistribution Policy and the Right to Social Welfare in Kant’s Philosophy
The notion of social welfare was created by the paradigm shift from duty-based to right-based morality, in which the satisfaction of human needs is a right in line with preserving human dignity. This paper investigates Kant’s view on social welfare in light of redistribution policy. Kant bases his p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2022, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 84-95 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NCC Social ethics TJ Modern history VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | The notion of social welfare was created by the paradigm shift from duty-based to right-based morality, in which the satisfaction of human needs is a right in line with preserving human dignity. This paper investigates Kant’s view on social welfare in light of redistribution policy. Kant bases his political philosophy on external freedom. Notwithstanding the ethical principles of his philosophy, he is the first prominent thinker to clearly emphasize the necessity of a redistribution policy by the government toward providing for the needs of the poor and the needy. The important question remaining is whether or not the Kantian ideas of external freedom and redistribution for the sake of satisfying the right to social welfare can reach a compromise. It seems that Kant believes the redistribution policy to be not the right of the poor to be provided welfare by the state, but the right of the state, and as such, the states' right to task the people with providing for the welfare of the poor. Such a policy challenges the freedom of the wealthier class and apparently leads to an inconsistency between the two pillars of Kant’s sociopolitical philosophy. The current paper aims to find Kant’s response to this challenge by referring to his scattered arguments. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2265 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/heyj.13572 |