Kant and the Anthropological Antinomy

Kant devotes the last section of Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View to determining the character of the human species. A preliminary logical difficulty is the definition of human species. Kant then raises the question as to whether human beings are good, evil, or neither good, nor evil, but utterly shaped by educators. Somewhat unexpectedly, Kant eventually embraces the fourth logically conceivable option and claims that human beings are both good and evil. Kant's solution for this anthropological antinomy pivots around the distinction between sensible and intelligible character, formulated in the Critique of pure reason. His thoughts are basically consistent with some analogous arguments formulated in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. A study of this topic supports a non-dismissive interpretation of Kant's Anthropology, showing how to integrate it with some of the most important principles of his thought.