Reason, Revolution and Rights: workshop 4 in the series, "Reason, Right, and Revolution: Practical Philosophy between Kant and Hegel"

The French Revolution and the resulting declarations of the rights of man and of the citizen posed two important questions to the early post-Kantians—namely, Is a right to revolution entailed or precluded by the principles of Kantian ethics?; Do the principles of Kantian ethics entail a commitment to human rights, or might one endorse aspects of Kant’s moral theory while denying the existence of human rights? This workshop considers the attempts by the early post-Kantians to answer these questions. It also considers the early post-Kantians’ positions on race and on the rights of women and non-Europeans. Although these issues played only a peripheral role in the practical philosophy of the early post-Kantians, their treatment of them raises important questions about the critical potential of their moral and political theories.

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