Kant and a culture of freedom

  1. Ana Marta González 1
  1. 1 Navarra (Spain)
Revista:
ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie

ISSN: 0001-2343

Any de publicació: 2010

Volum: 96

Número: 3

Pàgines: 291-308

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie

Resum

The expression "a culture of freedom" is unmistakably modern. Yet its meaning is not immediately clear. My purpose in this paper is to clarify the possible meaning of this expression by taking Kant¿s practical philosophy as a point of reference. In order to do so, I will depart from Kant¿s explicit conception of culture, and try to relate it to his own distinction between external and internal freedom, especially as it appears in the Metaphysics of Morals.