Kant and Critical Hermeneutics. Historicity and Teleology in Kant’s Later Philosophy, and Its Ethical and Political Potential
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: In the contrast to the prevailing ahistorical Neo-Kantian constructivism, authors such as Axel Honneth intended to reconcile Kant’s practical philosophy with Hegel’s philosophy of history. In several of his later works, written mostly after the publication of the Critique of Judgment, Kant offered accounts on judgment, history, and morality which effectively altered some of his earlier constructivism and explicated the model of reflection on human existence beyond the binary of absolutism and relativism. Considering the interpretations, provided by Rudolf A. Makkreel, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Ricoeur, the following discussion intends to provide an alternative model for the hermeneutics of social and political existence, and show the basis for a political ethics, founded upon the reflective potential inherent in the rational, yet historically, contextually, and intersubjectively grounded being-in-the-world, while being attentive to the dangers of Eurocentrism and the justification of pathological political practices.
Author: Gašper Pirc
Institution: University of Ljubljana
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4324104792