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Evil Everywhere. The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil
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Robert B. Louden
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March 16, 2010
Abstract
In this essay I examine four popular criticisms of Kant's account of radical evil. In each case, I try first to defuse the criticism by explaining Kant's position in a way that is consistent both with his texts as well as with common sense. Second, I attempt to show -- contrary to what critics claim -- that in each case his position, correctly interpreted, is not a weakness but a strength.
Keywords:: Kant; evil; radical evil; freedom; self-love; diabolical evil; universality of evil; human nature
Published Online: 2010-03-16
Published in Print: 2008-November
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Keywords for this article
Kant;
evil;
radical evil;
freedom;
self-love;
diabolical evil;
universality of evil;
human nature
Articles in the same Issue
- Evil Everywhere. The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil
- What is Naturalism? Towards a Univocal Theory
- Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics
- Butler's Unduly Worry about Foucault. The Paradoxically Constituted and Constructed Body
- On the Performative and the Pragmatic. Performative vs. Pragmatic Self-Contradictions
- Philosophical Fiction and the Act of Fiction-Making
- On Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist Challenge to Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art
- Less is More, and More is Needed. Reply to Jan Faye
- Nothing but the Truth. A Reply to Søren Harnow Klausen
- John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer & Luca Pocci (eds.): A Sense of the Worlds. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. New York & London: Routledge, 2007 (344 pp.)
