Kant’s Critique of Political Reason

Aleksander Bobko

doi:10.18290/rf24723.10

Published : 2024-09-27

Vol. 72 No. 3 (2024)

Kant’s Critique of Political Reason

Aleksander Bobko

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0609-6982

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf24723.10

Abstract

Although considerations regarding the political sphere do not occupy much space within Immanuel Kant’s system, the influence of his concepts on our contemporary critical thinking is enormous. The coherence of Kant’s political concept also remains a problem, where the highest good to be achieved by humanity is eternal peace, within the entirety of critical philosophy. In this article, I attempt to show that such a connection exists, and the vision of political order can be interpreted as the highest form of realization of rationality, whose source is reason. The realization of such a goal can only be thought of hypothetically, but most surprisingly, it is conditioned on the assumption of the existence of God as the creator of a universal community of people of good will.

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Kant, reason, political thinking, eternal peace

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