%0 Journal Article
%@ 0022-8877 (Druck-Ausg.); 1613-1134 (Online-Ausg.)
%A Welsch, Martin
%C Berlin
%D 2019
%F heidok:32748
%I de Gruyter
%J Kant-Studien
%K radical evil, evil heart, self-deception, rhetoric
%N 1
%P 49-73
%R 10.11588/heidok.00032748
%T Kant über den Selbstbetrug des Bösen
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32748/
%V 110
%X 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.
%Z Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.