ABSTRACT
Kant is not an obvious protagonist in the consideration of the emergence of the State as a mythological entity. Long ignored as a political philosopher, but now fi rmly in the ranks, his credentials are seen to be his emphasis on principles of right, law, justice, freedom, equality, individual independence, social contract and a constitutional State which is to assure these principles.1 Nonetheless, as with his predecessors in this account and irrespective of what might have been his intentions, the effect of his work is that he has an important place in the attempted reform and consolidation of the mythological State.
