Nogovitsin, O.N. (2022) Kant’s substantiation of liberalism as a social theory: war, law, morality. Philosophy and Society 33(4), pp. 715–748. doi: 10.2298 ...

Текст статьи на сайте журнала URL: https://journal.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/fid/article/view/1503 (дата обращения 26.12.2022)

Abstract

In this article, we propose a consecutive analysis of Kant’s concept of liberal way of thought and of the basics of institutional structure of liberal community, which shape an immutable carcass of all the possible logics of development of social practices and thinking within the frame of liberal world order. As specific for such a study, a methodic assumption is taken that Kantian metaphysics of morality, law and religion could be considered as one of the primal historic forms of social theory. The initial point of analysis is the concept of war (and enemy) as of Kant, whereby it is demonstrated that in the form of variable aporia and requiring to be interpreted epiphenomena of individual and collective consciousness, it constitutes a sui generis constructive reverse side of all types of practice, to which Kant bestows a transcendental grounding. It is by the mentioned methodic specificity that we prioritize the attention paid to the formulations of Kant’s deductions of law and morality. As a whole, the given substantiations are construed phenomenologically as specific forms of experience which are constitutive of moral, law and religious conscience.