Understading Devils. Politics and Morality in Kant’s practical philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2009.i41.666Keywords:
original contract, devils, duty, teleologyAbstract
This essay studies two sources of tension within Kant’s idea of society: on the one hand, the tension arising from the connections and differences between morality and politics; on the other, the tensions between two narratives or argument lines which dominate Kant’s texts, the transcendental and the teleological narratives. The essay argues that such tensions may only be attenuated with a particular slant: that is, emphasizing the transcendental narrative and the thesis of the primacy of morality, over and above the teleological narrative and the thesis of the independence of politics vis a vis morality.
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