Kant's radical evil. Religion within the boundary of pure reason

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Centuries, grade: 1,2, National University of Ireland, Galway, language: English, abstract: "Der Mensch ist von Natur aus böse." (Human nature is evil) Stating this, Kant refers to a problem which has been from time immemorial a problem of Moral Philosophy. But what exactly does Kant mean, stating this? One interpretation could be that nature brings the evilness from the outside and makes a human evil, that it is the environment which is responsible for any human evilness. Another interpretation could be that men are evil by nature in a way that they are born evil and evilness is a human's feature, why everybody is evil. Probably Kant did not either mean the one nor the other.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Grönebaum
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2014
• EAN: 9783656586715
• ISBN: 978-3-656-58671-5
• No. of pages: 12
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 34 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V268385; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V268385
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day