Constructivism, realm of ends and cosmopolitianism: kantian cosmopolitianism in light of the public use of reason and the ideal of the realm of ends

Abstract

The present work seeks to illuminate the Kantian concepts of the kingdom of ends and the public use of reason in constructivist terms, in order to explore the normative structure of the public sphere and civil society. This reading will include the key to democratization developed by Tilly and Tarrow and the exchange of reasons, developed by Forst, to see how the public sphere and civil society transcend the limits of the nation state and can be transnational, while avoiding the populist drift. To do this, we will begin by developing an interpretation of Kantian morality in a constructivist key, to go on to review, along those lines, the concept of the kingdom of ends and the public use of reason, to finish, developing the concept of a cosmopolitan civil society.