title: Kant über den Selbstbetrug des Bösen
creator: Welsch, Martin
subject: ddc-100
subject: 100 Philosophy
description: Abstract: In Kantian philosophy, the evil heart is constituted as a system of self-degrading and self-deranging freedom by the coordination of two voluntary acts: the act of establishing radical evil and the act of a voluntary lie to oneself. The consequence is a kind of “madness of freedom”, which characterises the self-deception of evil. By discussing Kantian rhetoric as an elaborate art of writing, this structure will be explored via a new approach to reading ‘On Radical Evil in Human Nature’. The result is that it is the mere possibility of a lie to oneself originating in freedom that makes it impossible to cognise whether one’s heart is good or systematically evil.
publisher: de Gruyter
date: 2019
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32748/1/10.1515_kant-2019-0002.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00032748
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2019-0002
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-327485
identifier:   Welsch, Martin  (2019) Kant über den Selbstbetrug des Bösen.  Kant-Studien, 110 (1).  pp. 49-73.  ISSN 0022-8877 (Druck-Ausg.); 1613-1134 (Online-Ausg.)     
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language: ger