Why Even Kantian Angels Need the State: Comments on Robert Hanna’s “Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature”

Anne Margaret Baxley (Ph.D. UC-San Diego) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on Kant, the history of philosophy, and ethics.  Her book entitled Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy was published by Cambridge University Press (2010).  Baxley has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane.  She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association of University Women.  Her articles on Kant’s ethics have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Kant-Studien, The Review of Metaphysics, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Inquiry, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.