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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1. Verfasser: Welsch, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Deutsch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin de Gruyter 2019
Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 2019
DOI:10.11588/heidok.00032748
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:In: Kant-Studien, 110 (2019), Nr. 1. pp. 49-73. ISSN 0022-8877 (Druck-Ausg.); 1613-1134 (Online-Ausg.)
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DOI:10.11588/heidok.00032748