What is Philosophical about Kant's Anthropology? Academic Article

abstract

• 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this essay, I argue that Kants Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is fundamentally about the sphere of civilization, and, with this, a particular kind of philosophical self-understanding. By civilization, Kant means to indicate the process by which human beings transform their inner natures based on pragmatic or prudential considerations born of our living together. Civilization is what we do to ourselves in order to get along with others with whom we share the earth. In the Anthropology, what we come to understand about ourselves is the possibility of transforming our inner natures based on our will.

authors

• Sweet, Kristi

published proceedings

• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

• Sweet, K.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Sweet, Kristi

publication date

• May 2017

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• International Journal of Philosophical Studies  Journal

keywords

• Anthropology
• Civilization
• Kant
• Self-understanding

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/09672559.2017.1320019

start page

• 336

end page

• 347

volume

• 25

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2017.1320019