ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the views of those Marxian post-Kantian philosophers who see in the corpus of Kant's work the materials for an idealist internationalism that characterize as neo-Kantianism. Examining the separate contributions of Beitz and Pogge to an idealist version of emancipatory international relations (EIR) and how it can be sustained is not only intrinsically interesting, it will also help us to grasp the limits of this genre of theorizing. In Theory Part One Rawls famously developed a conception of justice in terms of which the possibility of people from radically different perspectives converging on the same principles of what a just society consists of is given new meaning and significance. Pogge's arguments concern the morality of world poverty, which is X according to our formula for analyzing EIR theories. Beitz and Pogge hold that reason alone is all the motivation required to eliminate the factually determined external condition of radical distributive injustice.
