What Is Orientation in Global Thinking? - A Kantian Inquiry

Uses Kant's philosophical method to show how global justice theories depend on acknowledgement of the intelligibility of contextually alien thought.

List of contents

1. Conceptual loss in global political thinking; 2. On the moral necessity of states; 3. Non-individualist 'innate right'; 4. Re-orienting normative global thinking; 5. Progress without history; 6. Human rights for ancestors?; 7. The state as a failed universal; Conclusion.

About the author

Katrin Flikschuh is Professor of Modern Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Kant and Modern Political Philosophy (Cambridge, 2000) and Freedom: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives (2007).

Summary

This book engages modern African philosophical thinking from a Kantian perspective, presenting new approaches to global justice debates, and showing that Kantian universalism does not require general agreement on substantive moral principles. It will interest moral and political philosophers and those interested in global moral issues, as well as Kant scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Katrin Flikschuh, Katrin (London School of Economics and Flikschuh, Katrin (London School of Economics and Political Science) Flikschuh, Flikschuh Katrin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107003811
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00381-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought