PASSIONS AND EVIL IN KANT’S PHILOSOPHY

In this paper, I aim at relating passions to evil in Kant’s philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the text Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant claims that both affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both affect and passion hin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Borges, Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Manuscrito (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8641961
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8641961
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Passion. Kant. Evil. Religion
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Sumario:In this paper, I aim at relating passions to evil in Kant’s philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the text Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant claims that both affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both affect and passion hinder the sovereignty of reason. I show that passions are worse than affects for the purpose of pure reason. Second, I relate affects and passions to the degrees of the propensity to evil in the Religion. I analyze the idea of an ethical community as a way to overcome the evil, which goes beyond political and anthropological solutions suggested by Kant.