Justice for earth dwellers: a reply to my critics

Abstract

In responding to the stimulating commentaries by Alice Pinheiro Walla, Anna Stilz and Elisabeth Ellis, I aim to clarify and stimulate further engagement with some of the main arguments in ‘Kant’s Grounded Cosmopolitanism’. In particular, I highlight two premises that are seminal to Kant’s systematic framework of political morality as I reconstruct it: the radically relational and political nature of rights. While the commentators articulate various lines of critique, many of their queries can be understood as targeting (one or both of) these tenets on exegetical and/or systematic grounds.