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Historical Duties. Kant’s Path from Nature to Freedom, Cosmopolitanism and Peace
Filieri, Luigi
2021
Abstract
In this paper I reconstruct Kant’s account of history as the moral space where the full development of human being’s dispositions takes place by moving from nature to the idea of a cosmopolitan rightful condition. By highlighting the key concepts of Kant’s writings on history1, I aim to show that both perpetual peace and a cosmopolitan order are historical duties, namely achievements that human species ought to work for in order to substantiate the moral vocation of human nature. I address three main issues. First, Kant’s puzzling account of (human) nature requires us to clarify that we can conceive of a “natural” predisposition to morality only in terms of an analogy. Second, I take the notion of right to be the organ of freedom throughout history, as the means to let 1) morality permeate the world of human practices; 2) culture emerge. Third, the continuity between morality and right leads to both perpetual peace and cosmopolitanism as the achievements of human species’ moral development.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Luigi Filieri, "Historical Duties. Kant’s Path from Nature to Freedom, Cosmopolitanism and Peace" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2021) XXIII/2", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2021, pp. 149-171
Languages
en
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale
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