SAKIZLI, SELDA SALMAN2022-11-212022-11-212021Salman, S. (2022). Violence, Wars, and the Possibility of Ethical Life in an Apocalypse: A Kantian Reading of The Walking Dead. Open Philosophy, 5(1), 57-66.https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0154https://hdl.handle.net/11413/7952The Walking Dead is a popular TV series depicting a catastrophic and violent world. After a pandemic that turns humans into zombies, we witness the collapse of civilization with all its institutions, the depletion of the resources, and the struggle to build a new world in the middle of the wars between surviving groups. It illustrates a world of literal and metaphorical homo homini lupus. Some people choose sheer survival, and others try to build a moral, civil world. In this article, I propose a reading of this series from a Kantian perspective by employing his interrelated ideas on history, ethics, and politics. I claim that The Walking Dead represents the state of nature and the violence it contains, and illustrates the course of history toward a civil society as defined by Kant.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessKantEthicsState of NatureWarPeaceThe Walking DeadArticle0007317264000042-s2.0-851227254552543-8875