Autonomy, Dignity and History in Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1804586FKeywords:
moral agency, teleology, history, human natureAbstract
In this paper I discuss some relevant theses of Caranti’s Kant’s Political
Legacy, whose aim is to provide a consistent account of how we could
develop Kant’s political thought and see to what extent Kant’s insights
can help us to critically understand the 21st century’s political world.
First, I will focus on autonomy as the ground of dignity and discuss
Caranti’s arguments against the exclusiveness of the Categorical Imperative
as the sole principle of true moral agency. Second, I will take into account
Caranti’s views on history and consider whether human rational nature
can be regarded as containing teleological – though non-biological –
elements, thereby questioning Caranti’s Separability Thesis.
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Review, 20(2): 183–209.
Caranti, Luigi (2017), Kant’s Political Legacy. Human Rights, Peace, Progress. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press.
Cavallar, Georg (2015), Kant’s Embedded Cosmopolitanism. History, Philosophy, and
Edication for World Citizens. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
Cicatello, Angelo (2016), “Kant’s Idea of History”, Epekeina, 7(1-2): 1–15.
Ferrarin, Alfredo (2015), The Powers of Pure Reason. Kant and the Idea of Cosmic
Philosophy. Chicago-London: The University of Chicago Press.
Ferrarin, Alfredo (2004), Saggezza, immaginazione e giudizio pratico. Studio su Aristotele e
Kant. Pisa: ETS.
Fonnesu, Luca (2017), “Politik als Moral”, in Mori, Massimo (hrsg.), Vom Naturzustand zur
kosmopolitischen Gesellschaft. Souveränität und Staat bei Kant, Wiesbaden: Springer,
pp. 169–189.
Fussi, Alessandra (2012), La città nell’anima. Leo Strauss lettore di Platone e Senofonte.
Pisa: ETS.
Guyer, Paul (2017), “Kant and the Autonomy of Reason. An Interview by Luigi Filieri”,
Studi Kantiani, XXX: 9–26.
Kant, Immanuel (1788), Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft. Translated by Gregor, Mary J.
In Gregor, Mary J. (ed.) (1996), Immanuel Kant. Practical Philosophy, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 133–271. In the text: KpV, original pagination of the
Akademie-Ausgabe (page of the English translation).
Kant, Immanuel (1784), Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht.
Translated by Wood, Allen W. In Louden, Robert B., Zöller, Günter (eds.) (2007),
Immanuel Kant. Anthropology, History, and Education, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 107–120. In the text: IaG, original pagination of the Akademie-
Ausgabe (page of the English translation).
Kleingeld, Pauline (2018), “The Principle of Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory: Its Rise
and Fall”, in Watkins, Eric (ed.), Kant on Persons and Agency, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 61–79.
Kleingeld, Pauline (2017), “Contradiction and Kant’s Formula of Universal Law”, Kant-
Studien, 108(1): 89–115.
BOOK SYMPOSIUM │ 597
Kleingeld, Pauline (2011), Kant and Cosmopolitism. The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Krasnoff, Larry, Sánchez Madrid, Nuria, Satne, Paula (eds.) (2018), Kant’s Doctrine of Right in the Twenty-first Century. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
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Willaschek, Marcus (2003), “Freiheit als Bedingung für Verantwortung. Ein kurzes Argument für den Kompatibilismus”, in Mischer, Sibille, Quante, Michael, Suhm, Christian (hrsg.), Auf Freigang. Metaphysische und ethische Annäherungen an die menschliche Freiheit, Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 199–205.
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Filieri, L. (2018) “Autonomy, Dignity and History in Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy”, Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. Belgrade, Serbia, 29(4), pp. 586–597. doi: 10.2298/FID1804586F.
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