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The State of Nature as the Moral Foundation for Political Society: Kant's Contribution to Contract Theory and its Application to Theories of International Relations.

机译:自然状态是政治社会的道德基础:康德对契约理论的贡献及其在国际关系理论中的应用。

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The image of the state of nature has played an important role in political philosophy, international relations, and practical politics for the last several centuries. As the basis of social contract theories, it contributed to the development of the doctrine of government by consent; as a metaphor for the anarchical context in which nation-states relate to each other, it has continuing relevance for theories of international relations and the practice of foreign policy. But how useful is it as a construct for understanding the nature of human beings, the purpose of the states they create, and their political and international relationships?;This dissertation answers this question by exploring the state of nature within Immanuel Kant's political philosophy. Uniquely among social contract theorists, Kant rejects both the putatively historical state of nature and the consensual contract. Nonetheless, this dissertation argues not only for his place within the contractarian tradition, but for the philosophical superiority of his treatment of the state of nature in comparison with Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.;Kant's metaphysical approach to the state of nature allows him to identify and articulate the moral foundations of such problems as property rights, freedom, coercion, and law, thus insisting on the necessity of the state while still defending republican consent as the ideal political standard. He achieves this on the basis of the essential moral self-awareness of the human person---the perspective the historical state of nature and social contract try to achieve, with less success.;Finally, this dissertation examines Kant's logic of the state of nature with regard to states in the international sphere. Here, it is argued that a consistently Kantian approach to international relations results neither in resignation to the international state of nature as a permanent status quo, nor in the imperative to instantiate a world state. Rather, by appealing to the metaphysical approach Kant used at the individual and state level, this dissertation concludes by arguing that states can accept the reality of the international state of nature without viewing such a state as normal or necessary.
机译:在过去的几个世纪中,自然状态的形象在政治哲学,国际关系和实践政治中都发挥了重要作用。作为社会契约理论的基础,它有助于政府同意理论的发展;作为民族国家相互联系的无政府状态的隐喻,它与国际关系理论和外交政策实践有着持续的联系。但是,它作为理解人类的本质,人类建立的国家的目的以及它们与政治和国际关系的一种结构有多大用处?;本论文通过在伊曼纽尔·康德的政治哲学中探索自然状态来回答这个问题。康德在社会契约论理论家中独树一帜,既拒绝了假定的历史性自然状态又拒绝了共识性契约。尽管如此,这篇论文不仅论证了他在契约论传统中的地位,而且论证了他对自然状态的处理与托马斯·霍布斯,约翰·洛克和让·雅克·卢梭相比在哲学上的优越性。自然的本质使他能够确定并阐明诸如财产权,自由,强制和法律等问题的道德基础,从而在坚持国家必要性的同时仍捍卫共和党的同意作为理想的政治标准。他在人类基本的道德自我意识的基础上实现了这一目标,即从历史的自然状态和社会契约试图达到的角度出发,但取得的成功较少。;最后,本文考察了康德的状态状态逻辑。国际领域中国家的性质。在这里,有人争辩说,康德人一贯的国际关系方针既不会导致国际自然状态永久不变,也不会导致实例化世界状态。相反,通过诉诸康德在个人和国家层面使用的形而上学方法,本文得出结论,认为国家可以接受国际自然状态的现实,而无需将这种状态视为正常或必要的状态。

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  • 作者

    Cooper, Carol Browning.;

  • 作者单位

    The Catholic University of America.;

  • 授予单位 The Catholic University of America.;
  • 学科 Political science.;International relations.;Philosophy.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2016
  • 页码 268 p.
  • 总页数 268
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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