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This story might seem more like an encounter of the third kind than an actual conversation with Immanuel Kant. But since it provided me with some answers to several questions which have troubled me, it could be of interest to others.
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See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971) where Kant’s moral theory is re-interpreted in terms of a rational choice approach bringing it nearer to the liberal intuitions of morality. For a later, more nuanced ‘political’ notion see his ‘Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory’, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 77 (1980): 515–72.
See Friedrich Kratochwil, The Status of Law in World Society: Meditations on the Role and Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), chaps 8 and 9.
See Friedrich Kratochwil, ‘Problems of Policy Design based on Insufficient Conceptualization: The Case of “Public Goods”’, in Ernst Ulrich Petersmann (ed.), Multilevel Governance and Interdependent Public Goods (Florence: European University Institute, 2012/13) Robert Schumann Center Working Paper Global Governance Program 18, pp. 61–72.
Immanuel Kant, ‘Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch’, in H.S. Reiss (ed.), Kant: Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 93–115.
Lea Ypi, ‘Natura Daedala Rerum? Justification of Historical Progress in Kant’s Guarantee of Perpetual Peace’, Kantian Review, vol. 14 (2010): 118–48.
See e.g. Sankar Mutu, Enlightenment against Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
See Stefano Fiori, ‘Adam Smith on Method: Newtonianism, Histor y, Institutions and the Invisible Hand’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 34 (2012): 411–35.
Adam Smith (1759), The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. A.L. Macfie and D.D. Raphael (Oxford: Clarendon, 1976).
See Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, ed. Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989) p. 61.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment, ed. Paul Guyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 241.
See Juergen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
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Kratochwil, F. (2016). Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): A Little Kantian ‘Schwaermerei’. In: Lebow, R.N., Schouten, P., Suganami, H. (eds) The Return of the Theorists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516459_13
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