Kant and the French Revolution

  • Reidar Maliks University of Oslo
  • Agustín José Menéndez Menéndez, Trad. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Filosofía
Mots-clés : revolution, transition, french revolution, sedition, right of resistance, German republicanism, protoutilitarian natural law

Résumé

Like the French revolutionaries, Kant defended individual rights and a republican constitution. That he nonetheless rejected a right of revolution has puzzled scholars. In this article I give an overview of Kant’s rejection of a right of revolution, compare it to the German intellectual context, and use it to explain Kant’s view of the events in France. In Kant’s nuanced account of the revolution’s two central phases, he refined a distinction between legitimate political transition and lawless popular rebellion.

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2023-07-11
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Maliks, R. (2023). Kant and the French Revolution (A. J. Menéndez Menéndez, Trad., Trad.). Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy, 12(2), 113-119 y 121. https://doi.org/10.5209/ltdl.88965