Does the Kantian State Dominate? Freedom and Majoritarian Rule

  • Mike Gregory

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Abstract

Recently, scholars have criticized what they call the “Kantian-Republican” thesis of freedom as non-domination. The main complaint is that domination is unavoidable. This concern can be separated into the problem of state domination, which suggests that the state's intervening powers necessarily dominate its citizens, and the problem of majority domination, which suggests that the People necessarily dominate individual citizen as a result of the potential to form dominating majorities.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)124-136
Number of pages13
JournalRatio
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun-2023

Keywords

  • Kant
  • Non-Domination
  • Majoritarianism

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