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Kant's Quasi-Transcendental Argument for a Necessary and Universal Evil Propensity in Human Nature
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy
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July 1, 2008
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Abstract
In Part One of Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason, Kant repeatedly refers to a "proof" that human nature has a necessary and universal "evil propensity," but he provides only obscure hints at its location. Interpreters have failed to identify such an argument in Part One. A
fter examining relevant passages, summarizing recent attempts to reconstruct the argument, and explaining why these do not meet Kant's stated needs, I argue that the elusive proof must have a transcendental form (called quasi-transcendental because Kant never uses "transcendental" in Religion). With deceptive simplicity, the section titles of Part One, viewed as components in an architechtonic system of ...
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