Should Kant Be Viewed as a Public Philosopher?

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Con-textos Kantianos-International Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI:10.5209/kant.88692

Zachary Vereb

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Abstract

Immanuel Kant is rarely appreciated for his contributions to public philosophy. This is unsurprising, given his dry, technical style, criticism of the popular German philosophy movement, and prolonged silence on religious topics following censorship threats from Frederick William II. Yet Kant’s underappreciation vis-à-vis public philosophy is curious: Not only was he a vocal supporter of the early French Revolution, but he also said much on the public and political value of enlightenment. These ideas come across indirectly in his systematic writings and explicitly in writings for the learned public. This paper focuses on the question as to whether Kant should be viewed as a public philosopher, drawing from recent contributions in Kant scholarship to argue for the affirmative, though in an admittedly qualified sense.

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康德应该被视为公共哲学家吗?

伊曼努尔·康德很少因其对公共哲学的贡献而受到赞赏。考虑到他干巴巴的技术风格，对德国流行哲学运动的批评，以及在腓特烈·威廉二世的审查威胁下对宗教话题的长期沉默，这并不奇怪。然而，康德对-à-vis公共哲学的低估令人好奇:他不仅是早期法国大革命的直言不讳的支持者，而且还对启蒙运动的公共和政治价值发表了许多看法。这些思想间接地出现在他的系统著作中，也明确地出现在他为有学问的公众所写的著作中。本文关注的问题是康德是否应该被视为一个公共哲学家，从康德学术最近的贡献中得出肯定的结论，尽管在一个公认的限定意义上。

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Con-textos Kantianos-International Journal of Philosophy PHILOSOPHY-

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期刊介绍： Con-Textos Kantianos aims at boosting the philological and critical research on Kant studies, considering also actual discussions on Kant''s thought. That is the reason why its heading hints to contexts with texts. Kant shall be the main focus of the journal, which will tackle subjects such as Moral and Political Philosophy, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Right, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Education, Aesthetics, Anthropology, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Human Rights, Social Policy, Theories of Justice and Cosmopolitanism. CTK aims at being an international and cosmopolitan inspired e-journal, where the Spanish language receives equal acknowledgement as English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese do. The main purposes of the journal are to enhance the development of a Kant scholarship network at the Latin American scale and to tighten the links between research groups already consolidated in different countries and languages. The editorial team, which gathers Kant scholars from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Spain, will certainly ease the fulfillment of both purposes.