In my paper I suggest the idea that the Metaphysics of Morals focuses on the worldly conditions of our being rational, but finite creatures, i.e. creatures who develop their human features in a specific context of life.
In this perspective one of the goals of politics is to overcome those social and economic situations that hinder the achievement of civil independence for all citizens; the political goal of civil independence is indeed the link between the juridical and the economic implications of
poverty, i.e. the political core of Kant’s conception of human development. This means that the State must provide the conditions that overcome an unchanging economic dependence for some citizens; therefore, in Kant’s view huge divergences in wealth should be ruled out in
order to ensure opportunities for all citizens to gain the same advantages as the fortunate.
