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A Critique of Kantian Constructivism

Political Theory
Constructivism
Jurisprudence
Melike Akkaraca Köse
University of Navarra
Melike Akkaraca Köse
University of Navarra

Abstract

In Kantian theory, while ordinary people are granted sufficient capacity of reason to reach moral perfection, they are still submitted to imperfect laws for the sake of (idea of) order. Within this context, this paper will be a critique about limits of Kantian constructivism and will discuss the implicit claim of Kantian theory that positive law and morality, and thereby the people are doomed to stay separate until a perfect moral unity among people to be accomplished.