Kant’s radical evil. Religion within the boundary of pure reason

Download or read book Kant’s radical evil. Religion within the boundary of pure reason written by Melissa Grönebaum and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Centuries, grade: 1,2, National University of Ireland, Galway, language: English, abstract: „Der Mensch ist von Natur aus böse.“ (Human nature is evil) Stating this, Kant refers to a problem which has been from time immemorial a problem of Moral Philosophy. But what exactly does Kant mean, stating this? One interpretation could be that nature brings the evilness from the outside and makes a human evil, that it is the environment which is responsible for any human evilness. Another interpretation could be that men are evil by nature in a way that they are born evil and evilness is a human’s feature, why everybody is evil. Probably Kant did not either mean the one nor the other.