Poverty and civil recognition in Kant’s juridical philosophy: some critical remarks

Abstract

Kant still inspires several of the contemporary approaches to the construction of citizenship. Taking into account this fact, I would like to tacklesome features of the historical gap that separates Kant’s notion of citizenship from the one adopted by most current deliberative democracies. I shall meanly focus on issues asKant’s treatment of poverty relief,the right to vote and civil recognition, which is denied for women,for appraising how muchhispolitical philosophy is far from the notion of human political development generally accepted in our present.