Kant's Political Anthropology

The essay investigates the anthropological foundations of Kant's political thought. Section 1 argues for the mutually supplementary relation between the critical theory of reason and the natural history of reason in Kant. Section 2 deals with the implied politics of Kant's anthropology focusing on the relation between nature and culture. Section 3 addresses the human social character, in particular the dual process of the civilization and the moralization of human beings, in Kant. Section 4 presents the political vocation of the human being elucidating the paradoxical relation between good and evil and the role of civic republicanism in Kant's political anthropology.