Kant über den Selbstbetrug des Bösen
Abstract: In Kantian philosophy, the evil heart is constituted as a system of self-degrading and self-deranging freedom by the coordination of two voluntary acts: the act of establishing radical evil and the act of a voluntary lie to oneself. The consequence is a kind of “madness of freedom”, which...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | German |
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Berlin
de Gruyter
2019
Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 2019 |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00032748 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-327485 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00032748 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/32748 
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| Author Notes: | Martin Welsch |
| Summary: | Abstract: In Kantian philosophy, the evil heart is constituted as a system of self-degrading and self-deranging freedom by the coordination of two voluntary acts: the act of establishing radical evil and the act of a voluntary lie to oneself. The consequence is a kind of “madness of freedom”, which characterises the self-deception of evil. By discussing Kantian rhetoric as an elaborate art of writing, this structure will be explored via a new approach to reading ‘On Radical Evil in Human Nature’. The result is that it is the mere possibility of a lie to oneself originating in freedom that makes it impossible to cognise whether one’s heart is good or systematically evil. |
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| Item Description: | In: Kant-Studien, 110 (2019), Nr. 1. pp. 49-73. ISSN 0022-8877 (Druck-Ausg.); 1613-1134 (Online-Ausg.) |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00032748 |