Kant on welfare: five unsuccessful defences
Davies, L. J.
(2020).
Kant on welfare: five unsuccessful defences.
Kantian Review,
25(1), 1-25.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S136941541900044X
(2020).
Kant on welfare: five unsuccessful defences.
Kantian Review,
25(1), 1-25.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S136941541900044X
This article discusses five attempts at justifying the provision of welfare on Kantian grounds. I argue that none of the five proposals is satisfactory. Each faces a serious challenge on textual or systematic grounds. The conclusion to draw from this is not that a Kantian cannot defend the provision of welfare. Rather, the conclusion to draw is that the task of defending the provision of welfare on Kantian grounds is a difficult one whose success we should not take for granted.