Fleshing out the regulative standing of Kant's cosmopolitan law

Abstract

This discussion of Claudio Corradetti’s essay Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law. The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason stresses how regulative normativity sheds a key light over Kant’s political order. I engage in a discussion with the author that highlights the advantages stemming from assigning different values to the non-ideal and ideal structure of global politics in Kant’s account of the republican order, taking into account recent related papers on this issue of Kant’s political philosophy.