Pobreza y propiedad. ¿cara y cruz de la misma moneda? Una lectura desde el republicanismo kantiano

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show that poverty is, for Kant, the flipside of a social distribution of acquired property that is incompatible with the equal freedom of all according to universal laws. The problem with poverty is not a matter of charity or each person's lax ethical duties. Nor is it a matter of a law of necessity which would enable the poor to steal when their basic needs are not met. Rather, it is a structural problem in the formation of a state, a fatal flaw in the design of public institutions, which are unable to set up a social life that is in line with reciprocity in external freedom of all.