Original scientific paper

MORALITY, LAW AND POLITICS IN THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KANT'S LATE WORKS

Ante Pažanin ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the wake of the 'Kant revival', which has spawned a plethora of works on his philosophy by its contemporary interpreters and advocates such as Herbert Schnädelbach, Hans Lenk, Konrad Cramer, Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Volker Gerhardt, Karl-Otto Apel, Otfried Höffe and others (whose studies were published this year under the title of Kant in der Diskussion der Moderne), the author tries to prove, by means of an analysis of Kant's treatise Über den Gemeinspruch: Das Mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis that not only did Kant in his later works draft and expound the programme of practical philosophy of morality and right, politics and history, but that in the last three chapters of this work, this philosophy evolves into a modern liberal theory of morality, state law and international or "international civil" law built around the central principle of Kant's practical philosophy: "Was aus Vernunftgründen für dir Theorie gilt, das gilt auch für die Praxis".

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Hrčak ID:

105846

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105846

Publication date:

4.10.1996.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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