The Relations of Three Kinds of Anthropology and Three Approaches to Political Thought in Kant’s Philosophy

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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phd of philosophy

10.29252/kj.2022.222797.1049

Abstract

 Emmanuel Kant holds multiple and sometimes contradictory views on political thought, so that in different periods of his thinking, we are faced with different political approaches. Since in the face of each of his different anthropological approaches we are confronted with a different political thought in relation to it, it seems that Kant changes the fate of his political thought with the idea he finds in each period about anthropology. In his first approach, he looks only at man as a species, and explains the history of his development on the basis of providential or natural history, in such a way that man does not rely on his own will in the formation of political society, but occurs naturally. However, his view of man in moral thought is accompanied by a complex dialectic of the law of reason, will, and freedom, and is essentially defined by autonomy.The last case goes back to the critique of the power of judgment, which relates to people who together benefit from common sense. For those who even need each other to think and judge, this will go back to the aesthetic judgment that is formed in the imagination and not in the intellect.

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  • Receive Date: 13 July 2021
  • Revise Date: 25 November 2021
  • Accept Date: 05 February 2022

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