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Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Most scholars explicitly trying to overcome anthropological deficits in sociological methodology in general, rather than seeking to establish an anthropological sub-discipline of sociology, represent one of two standpoints: the ontological or the epistemological approach. Unfortunately, Kant’s anthropology has up to now mostly played a marginal role in this context. I show that Kant’s anthropological ideas can significantly contribute to the epistemological (but not to the ontological) aspects of the debates, primarily due to the connection between his anthropology, philosophy of history, and the social character of his pragmatic rationality.

Source: Philosophy of the Social Sciences

DOI: 10.1177/00483931251327338

Author: Alexey Zhavoronkov

Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt

Language: English

Topic: Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: Rationalität als pragmatische Weltklugheit: Kants Anthropologie und die modernen Sozialwissenschaften