KANT A ANTROPOLÓGIA AKO VADEMECUM SVETOOBČANA

• Authors: Martin Čengeri

Title variants

EN

Kant and anthropology as a Vade-mecum of a cosmopolitan

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Kant’s way of developing anthropology differs from that characteristic of the scientific spirit of the 18th century. Besides omitting the natural determination of humans he composes anthropology as a doctrine with practical intentions. He defines pragmatic anthropology as a reflected self-formation, whose objective is not a theory of a human being (“school anthropology” in Kant’s terminology), but rather a set of practical instructions for approaching oneself as well as the others. Thus, drawing to some extent on Michel Foucault, Kant’s anthropology can be understood as a modern conception of the art of living. Kant’s Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view is not just a purposeless summary of his numerous lectures on anthropology; it is rather a sort of vade-mecum or a prescriptive writing focused on purposeful practice.

Keywords

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KANT; PRAGMATIC ANTHROPOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY; COSMOPOLITAN

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 514 – 524

Contributors

author

Martin Čengeri

• Inštitút filozofie, Filozofická fakulta PU, Prešov, Slovak Republic